The Raven Figurative Language

Identify the type of figurative language being used in the line: "Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning..." (31).

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

Identify the type of figurative language being used in the line: "From my books surcease of sorrow – sorrow for the lost Lenore" (10).

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

Identify the type of figurative language being used in the line: "And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain / Thrilled me – filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before:" (13, 14).

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

Identify the type of figurative language being used in the line: "Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before" (26).

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Identify the type of figurative language being used in the line: "But the silence was unbroken" (27).

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

Identify the type of figurative language being used: While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

Identify the type of figurative language being used: suddenly there came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Identify the type of figurative language being used: And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain / Thrilled me– filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before:

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Identify the type of figurative language being used: And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

Identify the type of figurative language being used: Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification