Edgar Allan Poe-The Raven- Read by James Earl Jones

What do these lines suggest about the narrator right before he hears something at the door?

• He was snacking on food.

• He may have fallen asleep and started dreaming.

• He was drinking excessively.

What do the rustling of the purple curtains do to him?

• Make him want to sing Prince's "Purple Rain."

• It reminds him of the cold, blowing wind.

• It startles and excites him.

As he apologizes for not hearing his "visitor" earlier, what happens when he opens the door?

• The cold wind and rain enter, blowing out his candle.

• Nothing, there is nothing and no one there but darkness.

• A lady is standing in front of the door.

What line reinforces the idea that the narrator may be dreaming?

• "But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,"

• This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word "Lenore!:"

• "Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dreamed to dream before;"

The narrator asks the raven what brought it to his home.  What words does the narrator use to refer to the darkness and to the depths of the underworld, Hades, or Hell? 

• "Grave and stern decorum"

• "Nightly shore" and "Plutonian Shore" 

• "lordly name"

Here we read and hear repeated sounds in the use of "grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt..."  This literary device (or element of poetry) is called

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

"thy God hath lent thee - by these angels he hath sent thee Respite-" indicates the narrator is asking help and relief from who?   But that is denied when the raven repeats, "Nevermore."

• Heaven

• Hell

• Purgatory

Now questioning both Hell and Heaven, he asks if he will ever hold his lost love, Lenore, ever again.  What does the raven state?

• Only in Hell

• Nevermore

• Only in Heaven

By saying, "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take they form from off my door,"  the narrator is demanding what of the raven?

• That it take off its mask and reveal its true form.

• That it bring him more promising and positive news about Lenore.

• That it stop torturing him and that it leave his home.

The speaker's tone in the last lines of the poem suggest . . . 

• He will never find relief from his depression and grief.

• He will find relief from his depression and grief once the raven leaves. 

• The raven's presence doesn't bother him anymore.