#2 The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

What time does the poem take place?

• midnight
• noon
• morning
• afternoon

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When the author first heard the "rapping at his chamber door," who did he think was outside?

• his neighbor

• the raven

• some late night visitor

• his mother

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The speaker is upset about losing a

• book

• loved one

• bird

• statue

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To explain the noise at the door the narrator --

• concludes that a servant needs help

• guesses that a bird is in the hall

• assumes he has a visitor

• imagines Lenore is speaking

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

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—

Only this and nothing more.”

• dreary, weak, weary

• napping, tapping, rapping

• quaint, curious and forgotten

• midnight, pondered, muttered

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At first encounter, the speaker’s reaction to the Raven is —

• revulsion
• fear
• anger
• amusement

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What words use alliteration to create rhythm in the following lines?

Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; so that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating

• “thrilled me,” “filled me”

• “fantastic,” “terrors,” “never”

• “filled,” “fantastic,” “felt”

• “beating,” “repeating”

"As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door" is an example of which sound device

• repetition
• rhyme
• alliteration
• suspense

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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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