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The Raven

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

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Class
Date
1.

What is the relationship between Lenore and the narrator?

a)

Lenore is the narrator’s best friend; the narrator believes Lenore is in love with him.

b)

Lenore is the narrator’s true love whom has recently passed away.

c)

Lenore is the narrator’s girlfriend who just broke up with him.

d)

Lenore is the owner of a pet shop; the narrator believes she has sent him a Raven as a present.

2.

The phrase “the lamplight gloated o’er” is an example of what kind of figurative language?

a)

Alliteration

b)

Personification

c)

Metaphor

d)

Assonance

3.

Which type of figurative language is used in the following line, “Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before”? Yes...there's alliteration, but it isn't a choice, so there's something else...

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

hyperbole

4.

The phrase “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping” is an example of what kind of figurative language?

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personifcation

d)

alliteration

5.

The phrase “Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered weak and weary” is an example of what kind of figurative language?

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

assonance

6.

Which of the following statements best expresses the central idea of “The Raven”?

a)

The raven will never leave the chamber

b)

The poet will never sleep again

c)

A talking raven is a symbol of madness

d)

The poet will grieve Lenore’s death forever

7.

Which of the following best describes the theme of the poem?

a)

The sorrow and sadness that comes with the loss of a loved one can never be undone.

b)

Evil spirits take many forms and can haunt one relentlessly for past misdeeds.

c)

Fear is only an internal conflict, and cannot actually harm one.

d)

The natural world is hostile and evil.

8.

What month does the poem take place?

a)

November

b)

August

c)

December

d)

October

9.

The rhyme scheme of the poem is

a)

AABBCC.

b)

ABCABC.

c)

AAABCB.

d)

ABCBBB.

10.

The format of the poem contains

a)

internal rhymes.

b)

alliteration.

c)

end rhymes.

d)

All of the above.

e)

None of the above

11.

The first line of each stanza

a)

rhymes with the last line of the stanza

b)

rhymes with the third line of the stanza

c)

always ends with the word “nevermore”

d)

contains a rhyme with the last word of the line

12.

What is the tone of The Raven

a)

Lighthearted

b)

Sarcastic

c)

Horrified

d)

Melancholic

13.

The Raven continuously repeats

a)

Lenore

b)

Nevermore

c)

Nothing More

d)

Chamber Door

14.

In stanza 16, which line supports the notion that the speaker longs for relief from his grief?

a)

“Prophet”” said I, ‘thing of evil! – prophet still, if bird or devil!’”

b)

“Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted”

c)

“Is there – is there balm in Gilead?”

d)

“On this home by Horror haunted”

15.

The narrator refers to the Raven as

a)

a demon

b)

a prophet

c)

a devil

d)

all of the above

e)

none of the above