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The Raven
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1
"balm of Gilead" is in reference to
a biblical reference that refers to the changing of wine to water
a reference to the makers of Chapstick
a reference to spring water that flows from the Gilead Mountain
a biblical reference to the area of Jordan that makes medicines from plants
2
The repeated word spoken by the Raven is...
Nevertheless
Noneya
Nothing
Nevermore
3
The conflict described in
The Raven
is . . . (2 answers possible)
The speaker misses Lenore
the speaker hopes to speak to Lenore's ghost
the speaker is going crazy
speaker wants the raven to explain why he repeats Nevermore
4
What can you infer abt the speaker’s state of mind from references to the night as "Plutonian”?
He fears that Lenore is held captive.
He is confused by the raven’s answers.
He worries that the raven is sick.
He is preoccupied with death and ghosts.
5
The speaker in "The Raven: believes that the raven . . .
will take him to Lenore
can tell the future
is Lenore in disguise
represents death
6
What is the term for words that sound like their meaning?
rhyme
repetition
alliteration
Onomatopoeia
7
The setting can be described as
midnight in December, in a room full of books; spooky
early in the morning outside the speaker's window lattice
at a graveyard
in a dark spooky hallway
8
What does the speaker imagine after the raven first speaks?
drinking deeply
seeing Lenore
smelling incense
hearing tapping
9
Who are the characters in
The Raven
?
the speaker
the speaker and Lenore
the speaker and the bird
Lenore and the bird
10
In poetry, a paragraph of text is called a ...
stanza
statement
short verse
sentence
11
The rhyme scheme of
The Raven
can be written as
ABCBBB
ABBCBA
ABABB
ABABBB
12
The Raven was published in what year?
1945
1992
1845
1847
13
The raven enters the speaker’s room and sits on
the arm of the chair
the edge of the door
a bust of a Greek goddess
a purple curtain
14
The speaker tells the raven to leave because the bird
tries to push the speaker out of the room
tells the speaker that he will die very soon
says that the speaker will never see Lenore again
speaks about the ruler of the underworld
15
"While I nodded, nearly napping…" is an example of which literary device
Onomatopoeia
rhyme
repetition
alliteration
16
At the end of “The Raven,” the speaker
is defeated by his grief and madness
finds Lenore
goes back to his reading
gets the bird to fly out the window
17
What words use alliteration to create rhythm in lines 14–15?
“thrilled me,” “filled me”
“filled,” “fantastic,” “felt”
. “fantastic,” “terrors,” “never”
“beating,” “repeating”
18
"suddendly surcease of sorrow" is an example of
perspiration
conflagration
alliteration
enumeration
19
Poe's poem format of 5 lines and 1 half-line is called
Archaic Pentameter
Outdated Octameter
Trochaic Octameter
Iambic pentameter
20
The Raven
is a ____ poem.
haiku
creepy
narrative
concrete
21
Assonance is the repetition of_________ sounds in a _________.
Consonant , stanza
Vowel, stanza
Vowel, line of poetry
Consonant, line of poetry
22
"swung by a seraphim" (angel) is an example of
collusion
allusion
illusion
confusion
23
Why is the speaker in “The Raven” reading in his chamber?
to forget about his sorrow
to find out what has happened to Lenore
to learn how to communicate with birds
to put himself to sleep
24
The Raven
is about a man obsessed by the memory of . . .
Lenore, his cousin-wife.
Lenore, a woman that he loved that is now dead.
a bird that flew into his room
ghosts and gobblins
25
What is the Essential Question for this poem?
Why can your thoughts rule your life?
What does it take to be a survivor?
Can devotion, loss, and lingering grief be dimished?
What are you willing to sacrifice?
26
In "The Raven" Lenore symbolizes
doom, the underworld
angels in heaven
hope, optismism, eternal life
Poe's love for his parents
27
What is Poe's most famous poem?
The Raven
The Black Cat
Pit and the Pendulum
Tale Tell Heart
28
As of someone gently
rapping
,
rapping
at my chamber door.
repetition
scary
rhyme
alliteration
29
To explain the noise at the door the speaker
assumes he has a visitor
imagines Lenore is speaking
concludes that a servant needs help
guesses that a bird is in the hall
30
A line of poetry with stressed and unstressed syllables is called
assonance
consonance
meter
rhythm
31
The speaker is upset about losing a
book
bird
statue
loved one
