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Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" analysis questions in preparation for PARCC assessment
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1
What is the first question the narrator asks the Raven?
Why are you here?
Do you know Lenore?
Will I see Lenore?
What is your name?
2
Why is the
color
of the Raven important? (Line 43)
Blue signifies sadness.
Black signifies death or sorrow.
Yellow signifies happiness.
3
The narrator guesses that the Raven says the single word "nevermore" because
the raven was Lenore's pet
he has been listening to the narrator mourn for Lenore
his former master was an unhappy person
he was taught the word by the narrator's enemy
4
What is significant about where the Raven chooses to perch?
The Raven perches above the narrator.
The Raven wants food.
The Raven is inside his home.
The Raven perches on a statue of the goddess of Wisdom.
5
The speaker asks the raven 2 questions. One of the questions concerns:
Why did the bird visit him?
Will he ever be successful?
Will he ever see Lenore?
Did Lenore really love me?
6
When the narrator opens the door of his chamber and peers out, he half expects to find
The image of his own death
A host of angels
The deceased woman with whom he has been in love.
A Greek god come to life in the form of a bird
7
According to the narrator (in Stanza 14), why is the Raven here?
to tell the narrator about a storm
to give the narrator a message from God
to get sugar for the neighbor
to bring the narrator to Hell (on behalf of the devil)
8
Which is an example of internal rhyme?
In there stepped a Raven of the saintly days of yore.
Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore.
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
9
Why
is the narrator reading? (Lines 10-11)
for entertainment
to escape his pain
to research
to feel sorrow
10
Which is an example of alliteration?
Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning
Leave no black plume as a token!
What is this grim, ungainly, ghastly, guaunt, ominious bird?
Is there balm in Gilead?
11
Why does Poe use
repetition
at the end of each stanza?
to show that Lenore will not return
because the bird only knows one word
to set the mood
to show the narrator's sorrow
12
What mood is created by the setting in the first stanza?
cozy
happy
lazy
sleepy
13
What is the narrator
doing
when the visitor taps at his door (stanza 1)?
singing
reading
watching tv
writing
