WorksheetsThe Raven
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 35mins
Select the 3 questions that the speaker asks the Raven.
What is your name?
Where did you come from?
Can you ease my pain and sorrow?
Is Lenore in heaven?
To whom is the speaker referring to when he says that he mourns for the "rare and radiant maiden?"
Gilead
Plutonian
Seraphim
Lenore
The "Plutonian Shore" is a __________ allusion.
Mythological
Literary
Biblical
Historical
Lenore
Quoth
Nothing more
Nevermore
bust of Pallas
the window
On the velvet chair
The mantle over the fireplace.
Death
grief
a prophet
All of these
Select the vocabulary word that refers to the garden of Eden.
Balm in Gilead
Plutonian
Aidenn
Dirg
Medicine used to relieve pain and suffering is called
balm
dirge
Gilead
mutter
Sad or gloomy means
melancholy
placid
pallid
fancy
What happens when the speaker opens the door?
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?”
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, “Lenore!”—
Merely this and nothing more.
He sees a shadow.
The ghost of Lenore appears.
The Raven flies in.
He peers into darkness.
When the raven continues to respond with "Nevermore," how does the narrator feel?
He accuses the bird of lying
He kills the bird
He simply laughs and tells the raven to leave
He grows increasingly frustrated and begins to become angry
Is an example of which poetic device?
Reassuring
Romantic
Uplifting
Dark & melancholy
What are three words from Stanza 1 that help establish the tone?
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”
napping, tapping, rapping
quaint, curious, forgotten
dreary, weak, weary
nearly, gently, suddenly
"Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December"
Bleak means
sad, lonely
dark, dreary
happy, cheerful
long, drawn out
"While I nodded, nearly napping…" is an example of which literary device
onomatopoeia
alliteration
simile
repetition
What happens to the raven at the end of the poem?
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
____________ wrote The Raven.
Edgar Allen Wright
Robert Frost
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
The narrator was sitting in his chamber when a raven tapped on his window. What is a chamber?
chair
bed
room
bathtub
The Raven’s manner was calm and placid as he perched on the statue. What does placid mean?
peaceful
dreary
lonely
thin
"The Raven" is told from from the ____________ perspective.
First person
Second Person
Third Person
Which lines contain repetition?
Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
“Surely,” said I, “surely that is something at my window lattice;
Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore—
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;—
’Tis the wind and nothing more!”
1 & 2
2 & 4
4 & 5
1 & 3
The attitude the speaker/narrator has towards a topic/subject is called
mood
tone
imagery
Readers can infer from the poem's conclusion that the speaker will...
die from grief
continue to ask questions to the Raven
leave his haunted house
never recover from the loss of Lenore.
What does the narrator wish to know when he asks the Raven: "Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, / It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore"?
Will his poem be successful?
Does Lenore still love him?
Why has the Raven visited him?
Will he be reunited with Lenore in the afterlife?
The setting of the poem is...
midnight, December, chamber
midnight
midnight in December
the narrator's chamber
Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
Ebony means
strange or creepy
dark black in color
calm and peaceful
from the underworld
"So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating/ 'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door.'"
In this line, the narrator is trying to ____________________________.
Search for his lost Lenore
Prepare himself for his guest
Calm his beating heart
Convince himself it's only a visitor at the door
How does the narrator explain how the raven learned to speak?
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster
Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore
"Other friends have flown before / On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before." The narrator is saying...
The narrator's friend can fly.
The raven will leave him, like his friends have.
The narrator has no hope left.
The narrator is expecting friends tomorrow.
What is the resolution of the poem?
The raven has left the narrator alone.
The raven is still in the narrator's chamber and the narrator is consumed by his grief.
The raven has brought Lenore to the narrator.
The narrator opens the window and the raven leaves.
"... What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore/ meant in croaking 'Nevermore'." what literary devices are evident in this line?
Alliteration/Onomatopeia
Alliteration/Simile
Alliteration/Allusion
Alliteration/Repetition
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
