Edgar Allan Poe's Life
This city, where Poe was born in 1809
What is Baltimore?
The poem begins on this bleak month's midnight.
What is December
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing" is an example of this literary device.
What is alliteration?
The bust upon which the raven perches is of this Greek goddess of wisdom.
Who is Pallas Athena?
When the narrator opens the door, and nothing is there is an example of _____
anticlimax
Poe attended this university in 1826 but left after one year due to financial difficulties.
What is the University of Virginia?
The narrator is trying to distract himself from his sorrow by doing this activity.
What is reading (old books of forgotten lore)?
The raven is a symbol of this concept throughout the poem.
What is death (or grief/loss/sorrow)?
The "Balm in Gilead" mentioned in the poem is a reference to this religious text.
What is the Bible?
The number of stanzas in "The Raven".
What is 18?
This branch of the military that Poe joined in 1827
What is the U.S. Army?
This is the only word the raven speaks throughout the entire poem.
What is "Nevermore"?
The phrase "my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor" is an example of this figure of speech.
What is a metaphor?
The "Night's Plutonian shore" refers to the realm of this Roman god of the underworld.
Who is Pluto?
What did Edgar Allan Poe's foster father want him to be when he grew up
a business man
Poe's wife and cousin who died of tuberculosis at the young age of 24.
Who is Virginia Clemm?
The name of the narrator's lost love, mentioned in the poem.
Who is Lenore?
"Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster" is an example of
personification
The "distant Aidenn" mentioned in the poem alludes to this place from Judeo-Christian tradition.
What is Eden (or Paradise)?
What is nepenthe
The year that Edgar Allan Poe died
1849
The final resting place of the raven at the end of the poem.
What is above the chamber door (or on the bust of Pallas)?
"Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer" is an example of
imagery
The "Tempter" mentioned in the poem is an allusion to this biblical figure.
Who is Satan (or the Devil)?
True or false, the Raven is very frantic and flies all over the place.
False