POEtry

Which of the following best describes a central theme of the text?

• Loss and grief can have powerful effects on the mind.

• The supernatural is proof that death is not the end

• Fear is only a state of mind, and cannot significantly harm anyone.

• Evil deeds will always come back to haunt us.

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The speaker is upset about losing a  

• Book
• Loved One
• Bird
• Statue

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What are 3 words from the 1st stanza that help establish the tone?

• dreary, weak, weary
• napping, tapping, rapping
• quaint, curious and forgotten
• midnight, pondered, muttered

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"While I nodded, nearly napping…" is an example of which sound device

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration 
• rhyme
• repetition

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"And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor." 
Is an example of which poetic device?

• Alliteration
• Repetition
• Rhyme
• Imagery

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Why did Poe choose to use a raven versus a parrot or an owl? 

• The Raven is happy and Poe writes about happy things
• The Raven is black and can speak.
• Ravens often appear in legend and literature as sinister omens
• Owls and parrots are too scary for people to read about. 

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What is an example of assonance in Stanza 1?
(Hint: repeating vowel sounds)

• many, quaint, curious
• nodded, napping, suddenly
• dreary, weak, weary
• my, chamber, door

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The first line of each stanza contains which type of rhyme?

• end rhyme
• slant rhyme
• internal rhyme 
• no rhyme

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What does the Raven symbolize in this poem?

• The speaker's grief and lonliness
• The evil that haunts him
• The love that he had for Lenore
• Nature and how it affects human emotions

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"But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only

That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour."

placid means...

• Peaceful

• Cold

• Gigantic

• Lake

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