THE POEM AND POET
Who is Lenore?
Who is the narrator’s lost love?
What emotion dominates the narrator?
What is grief and sorrow?
What does dreary mean?
What is gloomy?
What is depressing?
“Tapping,” “rapping,” “rustling.”
What is onomatopoeia?
What genre is Poe most famous for developing?
What is gothic fiction?
What is the horror genre?
What is ballads?
Where does the poem take place?
What is the narrator’s chamber?
What is the central theme of the poem?
What is the inescapability of loss or despair?
What does quoth mean?
What is said?
What literary device is used in “Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor”?
What is personification?
What happened to Poe’s wife, Virginia?
What is she became very ill with tuberculosis and died young, which deeply affected him?
What is she got cold and very sick and died?
What does the narrator think when he hears the tapping?
What is that it’s a visitor at his door?
What drives the narrator toward madness?
What is his obsession with Lenore’s death and the raven’s words?
What is respite?
What is a short period of relief or rest?
What literary device is used here, “Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
What is alliteration?
Poe’s life was filled with tragedy — who else in his family died of tuberculosis?
Who are his mother and brother?
How does the raven enter the room?
What is it flies in through the window?
What does the ending suggest about the narrator’s soul?
What is it is trapped in darkness and can never find peace?
What does 'nepenthe' mean?
What is a mythical drink to forget sorrow?
The phrase “And my soul from out that shadow” is an example of what figurative device?
What is metaphor?
How did Poe’s struggles influence his writing?
What is it inspired his dark themes of grief and loss?
What does the narrator ask the raven about the afterlife?
What is if he will ever be reunited with Lenore?
What does the raven symbolize?
What is death?
What is grief?
What is sorrow?
What is meant by the Plutonian shore?
What is the underworld, the land of the dead?
How does repetition of “Nevermore” affect the poem’s tone?
What is it builds a sense of hopelessness and finality?
What mysterious event surrounded Poe’s death?
What is he was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore and died without explanation?