SOUND DEVICES
PLOT
FIGURES OF SPEECH
CHARACTERIZATION
EDGAR ALLAN POE
100
"Nevermore"
What is repetition?
100
The narrator hears a tapping on the window and sees a rustling of the curtain
The inciting Incident
100
a word that indicates the mood from stanzas one and two
What is bleak, quaint, dying, forgotten, vainly, sought, sorrow? - all possible questions
100
The Narrator is this character
What is the protagonist?
100
His cousin and wife and influence of the Raven
Who is Virginia Clemm?
200
grim, ungainly, ghast, and gaunt
What is alliteration?
200
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
What is foreshadowing?
200
"all my soul within me burning"
What is hyperbole?
200
The author's attitude toward the raven in 8-9
What is he thinks it is cute and awkward and takes itself too seriously sometimes, like a middle schooler?
200
The disease which claims so many women in Poe's life
What is Tuberculosis?
300
weak and weary, whether tempest sent . . .
What is assonance?
300
The narrator lies in the shadow of the raven, never getting up, and is probably a little loony.
What is the resolution?
300
Allusion . . . Athena
What is the pallid bust of Pallas?
300
How the narrator feels about the raven in stanza 10
What is he will be lonely?
300
Poe became famous for one of these two reasons
What is literary critic and author of the "Raven"
400
dreary. . . weary morrow. . . borrow. . . sorrow
What is internal rhyme?
400
On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamplight gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er, She shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer . . .
What is turning point? What is catharsis?
400
Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!": Quoth the raven, "Nevermore." (90)
What is. . . is my wife in heaven?
400
Indirect Characterization (Inference) we can make about the narrator, based on any line
What is . . . answers vary. Sad Unreliable Depressed Hopeful Reasonable
400
One of the schools he was forced to leave
What is University of Virginia or West Point?
500
ONCE upON a MIDnight DREARy WHILE i PONDered WEAK and WEARy . . .
What is Trochaic meter?
500
The fate of the narrator.
What is he goes crazy from his grief?
500
Aiden, Nepenthe, the Raven, the Purple Curtain, the Pallid Bust of Pallas, Night's Plutonian Shore
What is symbol?
500
The Character Type of the Narrator (give 2)
What is round, dynamic, unreliable?
500
God help my Poor Soul
What are Poe's last words?
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