Literary Devices
Poetry Terms
The Raven Plot
TTH Plot
FFA Plot
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"...there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton." This quote contains an example of this device.
What is a simile?
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The repetition of vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
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The setting of "The Raven" is this.
What is December, midnight, and in the speaker's chamber.
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The narrator longs to murder the old man because of this.
What is his eye?
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Charlie's teacher. She recommended him for the operation.
Who is Miss Kinnian?
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"... because Death, in approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim." This quote contains an example of this.
What is personification?
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In "The Raven," this person speaks in 1st person point of view.
Who is the speaker? (He is NOT Poe)
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The speaker's motivation for reading is this.
What is "surcease of sorrow, sorrow for the lost Lenore."
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This is referred to sounding like "a dull, quick sound, much like a watch makes when enveloped in cotton."
What is the old man's heartbeat.
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Because Charlie had this, the doctors and his teacher thought he was the best candidate for the experimental surgery.
What is motivation/good attitude?
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"The Raven" - Pallas Athena, Night's Plutonian Shore, Balm in Gilead "Flowers for Algernon" - Robinson Crusoe, Adam and Eve, Paradise Lost "The Tell-Tale Heart" - deathwatches
What is an allusion?
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Edgar Allan Poe is the ___________ of "The Raven."
What is the poet?
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After enjoying a distraction from his sadness because of the raven's entrance, THIS reminds him of Lenore once again.
What is the "cushion's velvet lining that the lamp light gloated o'er" (Stanza 13)
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The narrator finally admits his crime when he thinks he hears this.
What is the beating of the dead old man's heart?
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY! Do not answer in a question. Name one thing that Charlie has in common with either the speaker in "The Raven" or the narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Answers will vary.
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At the end of "Flowers for Algernon," Charlie throws a book called Paradise Lost across the room. Charlie experienced his own bit of paradise when he gained intelligence. Since he lost this intelligence, the book can be a _____________.
What is a symbol. The book is a symbol for the paradise Charlie loses.
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"The Raven" is an example of this type of poem.
What is narrative?
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This caused the speaker to assume that the raven was sent by God.
What is the density of the air - the feeling of spiritual presence. "Then, methought, the air grew denser..." (Stanza 14).
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Poe's use of unusual sentence structure, also known as _____________, helps to create suspense. An example of this is when Poe states, "When I made an end of these labors, it was four o'clock -- still as dark as midnight."
What is syntax?
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In "Flowers for Algernon, "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Raven," this element - in which the reader knows more than the character - is often used to create suspense.
What is dramatic irony.
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"And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain..." The repetition of consonant sounds found in this line is an example of this.
What is consonance. Silken Sad unCertain ruStling This line also contains alliteration and personification. Find those examples!
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY - Do not answer in a question. What is one possible theme in "The Raven"?
(Possible Answers) - It is difficult to move on after the loss of a dear loved one. - Alienation and/or isolation lead to depression. - Man has the ability to control his/her emotions.
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Explain why the narrator is or is not reliable.
The narrator is unreliable. (Explanations will vary, but should focus on his apparent mental state.)
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Do not answer in a question: Why is the title of "Flowers for Algernon" significant.
When Algernon dies, it foreshadows that Charlie will also die. By placing flowers on Algernon's grave, Charlie is accepting his own fate.
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