The Raven Review Game

Which of the following best explains the relationship between the speaker and Lenore?

• Lenore was the speaker’s girlfriend who broke up with him. 
• Lenore was the speaker’s love but she has recently died. 
• Lenore is the speaker’s friend whom the speaker is currently in love with. 
• Lenore and the speaker are enemies; the speaker believes she has cursed him. 

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How do the allusions, or references, made to Pallas (Athena) and Pluto (Hades) inform the character of the raven?

• These allusions make the raven seem otherworldly and informs his symbolic nature as a possible messenger from the afterlife.
• These allusions imply that the raven is far more powerful than it at first seems and it is there to cast judgement on the speaker.
• These allusions contribute to the raven’s characterization as the speaker’s punishment, as classical gods were often seen as cruel and petty.
• These allusions remind the reader that the speaker is mentally unbalanced and mistaking a raven for a god.

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How does the overall use of repetition in the poem contribute to its mood?

• The poem’s repetitive and rigid structure contrasts the speaker’s declining mental state, thus contributing to the crazed mood of the poem.
• The poem’s repetition of the negative response “Nevermore” contributes to the lethargic and dispassionate mood of the poem.
• The poem’s use of repetition and alliteration creates a dreamy mood, as the author thinks of his love, Lenore.
• The poem’s use of repetition—namely the tapping, the narrator’s calls for Lenore, and the raven’s catchphrase of “Nevermore”—contributes to the overall suspenseful, eerie mood.

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What does the raven in the poem symbolize?

• Love
• Hope
• Sadness
• Death

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What words use alliteration to create rhythm in lines 14–15?

• “thrilled me,” “filled me”
• “fantastic,” “terrors,” “never”
• “filled,” “fantastic,” “felt”
• “beating,” “repeating”

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To explain the noise at the door the speaker

• 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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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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What does the word implore mean as it is used in the lines below:

Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
`Sir,' said I, `or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;

• Making an order
• Begging another for mercy
• Disobeying another's rule 
• Being driven or carried along

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The raven enters the speaker’s room and sits on

• a bust of a Greek goddess
• the edge of the door
• the arm of the chair
• a purple curtain

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What year was Poe born? 

• 1908
• 1809
• 1980
• 1989

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