The Raven

Which detail from the poem best indicates how the narrator feels about the Raven when he first appears?

• Much I marveled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly” (49)

• “Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling” (43)

• “Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door” (101)!

• “ Leave my loneliness unbroken” (100)!

The Raven tells the narrator his name is Nevermore. This is an example of-

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• alliteration

Why does the narrator become mad at the Raven toward the end of the poem?

• The Raven won’t move off of the statue.

• The Raven will only say “Nevermore.”

• The Raven’s answer means there is no hope for his future getting better.

• The Raven tells him Lenore is o.k.

“And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting/ On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door” (103-4)

The author includes these lines mainly to help the reader understand that-

• The Raven has been there a short time.

• The Raven has become the narrator’s friend.

• The Raven is annoying.

• The Raven has become like a statue himself.

Choose the example of irony from the poem-

• The narrator is afraid of the dark, but he is up a midnight.

• The Raven sits on a statue of wisdom, but it can’t really answer the narrator’s questions.

• The bust of Pallas is pallid, but the Raven is dark ebony.

•   The narrator is happy to be alone, but welcomes the company of the Raven.

This lines makes an allusion (reference) to the Greek God of --

• war

• the night

• heaven

• the underworld

What is the rhyme scheme for the stanza?

• ABCABD

• ABCBBB

• BCACCC

• CBACDA

Read the line from the poem and choose the definition of the CAPITALIZED word: “Leave no black PLUME as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken” (99)!

• angel

• feather

• drink

• dreary

"Truly your forgiveness I IMPLORE" (line 20).

• beg/ask

• sad

• threatening

• conversation

What are the reasons that the narrator is awake?

• He was missing his wife.

• He was reading.

• He heard a tapping.  

• He was drinking.