English 11A Lesson 6 The Raven
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Midnight (12:00 am) | At what time does the action of the poem begin? |
| Staying up late reading a book | What is the narrator doing at the beginning of the poem? |
| December. | In which month is this poem set? |
| A visitor. | What does the narrator think the tapping noise is at first? |
| Frightened. | How does the narrator feel in the third stanza? |
| He hears an echo whisper back the name of Lenore. | What happens after the narrator whispers the name Lenore? |
| wise. | Because the Raven perches on the bust of Pallas, we can assume that the bird is |
| the land of the dead. | The narrator suggests that the bird has come from |
| He is surprised and curious. | What is the narrator's reaction when the Raven speaks for the first time? |
| It was trained by some melancholy master. | How does the narrator imagine that the Raven learned this word? |
| He will never see or hold Lenore again. | What does the narrator interpret is the meaning for the Raven's word "nevermore?" |
| The loss of the speaker's lover will be forever. | What is the final terror expressed in the poem? |
| loss of love. | The theme of "The Raven" can best be described as |
| gloom. | The tone of the poem shifts from amusement to annoyance to |
| hopelessness or despair. | The tone created by Poe in using the word "nevermore" is of |
| Symbolism. | What literary device does Poe employ when he chooses to use the raven to associate death? |
| Allusion. | The Raven sitting on the head of the bust of Pallas, the Greek god of wisdom, is an example of what literary element? |
| alliteration. | "...while I pondered, weak and weary", is an example of |
| alliteration. | "To the fowl whose fiery eyes..." is an example of |
| focus on the irrational side of human imagination. | The events in this poem are Gothic in that they |
| repetition. | The sound devices found in the line, "And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain thrilled me..." do not include |
| the words that echo the sound of the curtains, adding to the poem's hypnotic effect. | Poe writes, "And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain thrilled me..." The effect that this line creates is |
| hypnotic, eerie gloom. | The single effect of "The Raven" is |
| a single emotional response. | According to Poe's literary theory about the short story, the writer should seek to create in the reader |
| Terror. | In the writing of a short story, what singular emotional response was Poe trying to elicit from his reader? |
| it should have a dramatic climax. | In the writing of poetry, Poe´s literary theory was that |
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