WorksheetsThe Raven
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is the relationship between Lenore and the narrator?
Lenore is the narrator’s best friend; the narrator believes Lenore is in love with him.
Lenore is the narrator’s true love whom has recently passed away.
Lenore is the narrator’s girlfriend who just broke up with him.
Lenore is the owner of a pet shop; the narrator believes she has sent him a Raven as a present.
The phrase “the lamplight gloated o’er” is an example of what kind of figurative language?
Alliteration
Personification
Metaphor
Assonance
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...
metaphor
simile
personification
hyperbole
The phrase “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping” is an example of what kind of figurative language?
metaphor
simile
personifcation
alliteration
The phrase “Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered weak and weary” is an example of what kind of figurative language?
metaphor
simile
personification
assonance
Which of the following statements best expresses the central idea of “The Raven”?
The raven will never leave the chamber
The poet will never sleep again
A talking raven is a symbol of madness
The poet will grieve Lenore’s death forever
Which of the following best describes the theme of the poem?
The sorrow and sadness that comes with the loss of a loved one can never be undone.
Evil spirits take many forms and can haunt one relentlessly for past misdeeds.
Fear is only an internal conflict, and cannot actually harm one.
The natural world is hostile and evil.
What month does the poem take place?
November
August
December
October
The rhyme scheme of the poem is
AABBCC.
ABCABC.
AAABCB.
ABCBBB.
The format of the poem contains
internal rhymes.
alliteration.
end rhymes.
All of the above.
None of the above
The first line of each stanza
rhymes with the last line of the stanza
rhymes with the third line of the stanza
always ends with the word “nevermore”
contains a rhyme with the last word of the line
What is the tone of The Raven
Lighthearted
Sarcastic
Horrified
Melancholic
The Raven continuously repeats
Lenore
Nevermore
Nothing More
Chamber Door
In stanza 16, which line supports the notion that the speaker longs for relief from his grief?
“Prophet”” said I, ‘thing of evil! – prophet still, if bird or devil!’”
“Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted”
“Is there – is there balm in Gilead?”
“On this home by Horror haunted”
The narrator refers to the Raven as
a demon
a prophet
a devil
all of the above
none of the above
