Directions: Answer the questions using the poem. (Use the hints in
parentheses to assist with the correct answer)
1. Who is the assumed speaker?
the husband of Annabel
2. What is the setting?
Kingdom by the sea
5. What lines inform you of Annabel’s death? (number)
Lines 15 and 26 “…chilling and killing…”
6. According to the speaker, why did Annabel die? Put the lines
that support this answer.
Lines 11 and 12 “…went envying her and me…yes-that was the reason
(as all men know)…”
7. What does “coveted” (synonym from poem) mean, and who portrayed this
action?
envied, angels
8. What is a synonym for the word “angel”?
seraphs
8.5. What line addresses the young age of the two loves?
Line 7 “…I was a child, and she was a child…”
9. In the 4th stanza, what sound device is “chilling and killing” an example
of?
internal rhyme
11.What is a synonym for tomb or crypt? Use a word from the poem.
sepulcher
12. The speaker states that his and Annabel’s love is stronger than what two
groups of people? Write the number of the two lines that support this
statement or write the lines.
lines 28 and 29, wiser and older
13. What is a synonym for “separate”?
dissever
14. Line 34 is an example of what sound device?
internal rhyme
15. Where are the angels located? Demons?
Heaven above, down under the sea
16. Where does the speaker spend most of this time after the death of Annabel?
down by the side of Annabel’s grave
17. The speaker seems to have difficulty forgetting his love; what lines support
his inference? Write the number or the lines.
Lines 34 and 36, “…for the moon never beams… “…And the stars never
rise…”
18. What names does the speaker refer Annabel as?
maiden, Annabel Lee, child, her, darling, my life, my bride, beautiful
19. How did the speaker describe Annabel Lee?
beautiful
20. Which line does not make “sense” when dealing with the senses?
“I feel the bright eyes”
“The Raven”
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, While
I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
1. In line (a) find the two words that are an example of internal rhyme and record
them:
weary and dreary
2. In line (b) find the three words that are an example of alliteration and record
them:
nodded, nearly, napping
3. “And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain...” In this
line find two words that are an example of assonance and record them:
Uncertain and certain
4. What is the setting of “The Raven”? Include month and weather.
It was in the bleak December
5. Explain the conflict in “The Raven.”
The conflict in the “The Raven” is a bird annoying the narrator. The bird is driving the narrator crazy
6. In what ways does the author create “mood” in the opening stanza?
The narrator sets the scene in a “bleak November.” It is pitch black outside so it is a little
spooky and creepy.
Yes, there is indication that the narrator might have dreamed the whole
thing because at the beginning of the poem, in the first stanza he is about to
fall asleep. In the fifth stanza he also
says, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream
before.
8. What is he hoping the Raven can tell him?
He is hoping the Raven can tell him something of his lost Lenore.
9. Copy and identify one form of figurative language used in the poem:
One form of figurative language used in the poem is a metaphor. He says that the Raven has “demon eyes.”
Nevermore, Lenore). Why does Poe do this? What type of effect does it have on
the reader?
Allen Poe repeats these specific words because he wants to set a mood.
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore.
made he; not an instant stopped or stayed he; But, with mien of lord or lady,
perched above my chamber door - Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my
chamber door -
In
Not the least obeisance
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
The raven comes in and perches
above the narrator’s door.
12. What word does the raven always use to answer the narrator’s questions?
Nevermore
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