Setting
This is the time of day the poem occurs
What is midnight?
" . . . filled me with fantastic terrors"
What is oxymoron?
The meaning of Plutonian
What is of or related to the Underworld?
This is the character who comes to torment the speaker
What is the Raven?
The author of "The Raven"
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
This is the month the poem is set
What is December?
"In there stepped a stately raven" (hint: not alliteration)
What is image (sight)?
The meaning of tempter
What is Satan/devil?
The name of the speaker's deceased lover
Who is Lenore?
The speaker thinks the raven is there for this reason
What is to torment him?
The poem takes place here
What is in the speaker's chamber?
" . . . on the Night's Plutonian shore!"
What is mythological allusion?
The definition of Gilead (hint: not the thing)
What is Biblical reference?
The radiant maiden whom the angels name
Who is Lenore?
The only word the Raven quoths
What is nevermore?
The curtains in the speaker's chamber are this color
What is purple?
"Take thy beak from out my heart"
What is hyperbole?
The meaning of obeisance
What is gesture of deference or respect?
The speaker thinks the Raven is this (5th page)
What is a devil/thing of evil?
"Other friends have flown before . . ." means this
What is all the speaker's friends and partners have died?
This is the adjective used to describe December
What is bleak?
"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!" (Not Allusion!!)
What is metaphor (comparing the Raven to a creature from the underworld)?
The meaning of seraphim
What is an angelic being?
The speaker believes this person/entity sent the Raven
Who is the tempter/Satan?
The Raven is doing this to the speaker (hint: not mentally)
What is nothing?