The Raven Figurative Language

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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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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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”

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

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration 
• rhyme
• repetition

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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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What is an example of personification in Stanza 2? 
(Hint: relating a non-human object to human)

• Eagerly I wished the morrow
• And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor
• The rare and radiant madien
• sorrow for the lost Lenore

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What is an example of consonance in Stanza 3?
(Hint: recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants)

• uncertain, purple, curtain
• before, door, more
• some, entreating chamber
• thrilled, fantastic, more

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In stanza 15, Poe uses several exclamation points: `Prophet!' said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! -
Why would Poe choose to structure his sentences this way?

• It means the narrator is getting upset
• It shows the pacing and the narrative tension are rising
• It gives a variety of punctuation so the reader doesn't get bored
• It shows the bird could be a devil

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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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