Correct each word or phrase that should be italicized. If the sentence is correct, write Correct.
a. Many critics consider this novel to be a bildungsroman, a German term for a novel about a young person’s development and education.
b. Such a plot device, called a deus ex machina, Latin for “god from a machine,” comes from a tradition in ancient Greek drama in which a god suddenly appears and solves all the characters’ problems.
c. Still, the book’s portrayal of what the author called “old-fashioned family life on the banks of the Floss” has given it lasting popularity.
d. After this book George Eliot wrote Silas Marner, the tale of a lonely weaver who adopts a baby girl.
e. In this novel she was much influenced by the poet William Wordsworth, whose short poems “Simon Lee” and “Goody Blake and Harry Gill” describe rural life.
f. George Eliot also completed a long narrative poem called The Spanish Gypsy.
g. George Eliot’s early novels offer a smorgasbord of delights to those who want to learn more about the human heart and mind.
h. Her greatest work, however, which is often compared with Tolstoy’s War and Peace, was yet to come.
i. This masterpiece, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, contains many complex characters.
j. Her last novel, Daniel Deronda, offered a warm portrait of its heroine, Gwendolen Harleth.
