Beware, The Raven and The Windigo

In "beware: do not read this poem," To what does the speaker compare the poem?

• Another poem about a horrifying event in a strange house

• a horror movie, which is meant to terrify audience members

• the mirror in a horror movie, into which people disappear

• a horror tale, in which people are pursued by eerie woman

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What does the speaker in "The Raven" feel when he first thinks that Lenore may be at his door?

• Joy and Passion

• Terror and Hope

• Relief and Pleasure

• Confusion and Melancholy

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What happens to the child in 'Windigo"

• The child is terrified by a nightmare about a horrible creature

• The child is frightened and runs into the deep woods with a dog

• The child is kidnapped and carried into the woods by Windigo

• The child is scolded by the mother for knocking a kettle into the fire

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What is the most accurate description of the "Windigo"?

• A passionate creature that is helping save lives

• A scared creature that is fighting for its survival

• A demon of the wind that feeds on human flesh

• Abby Young

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In "beware: do not read this poem," what does the poem depict by changing "yr" to "his: in lines 36-37

• The poem is going from year to hour

• The poem is devouring the reader the reader, making the reader into itself

• The mirror capturing your soul

• Nothing. Just a way to confuse the reader

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What does the Raven come to represent?

• Lenore speaking to him from beyond the grave

• his own insanity

• Certainty that he will never meet Lenore

• That death is coming

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Who is NOT the writer of one of the three poems

• Louise Erdrich

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Ishmael Reed

• Allegra Ringo

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If someone can be described as beguiling, which of the following is must be true?

• The person is boring

• the person is athletic

• the person is charming

• The person is unpleasant

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Read the following stanza from "Windigo"

you knew I was coming for you, little one,

when the kettle jumped into the fire

Towels flapped on the hooks,

and the dog crept off, groaning

to the deepest part of the woods.

• Excitement and Joy

• Nervousness and Tension

• Stillness and Peacefulness

• Determination and Dedication

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If "Windigo" were told from the omniscient point of view rather than from the first- person point of view, what additional information might a reader learn

• what the WIndigo looked like

• what the mother was doing in the poem

• what time of the year the narrative takes place

• what the girl thought when she saw the Windigo

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