Critical Reading
Cloze Questions
The Simpsons
Raven Comprehension
Miscellaneous
100
"Once upon a midnight dreary"...." "Chamber..."
What is the setting of "The Raven"?
100
_________________ the Raven, "Nevermore".
What is Quoth?
100
This character was reading the story.
Who is Lisa?
100
This writer wrote "The Raven"
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
100
This is the attitude of the story.
What is Tone?
200
This is another name for the genre or type of poem that "The Raven" is.
What is "narrative"?
200
"Weak and __________________"
What is "weary"?
200
This character played the Raven
Who is Bart?
200
This is the name of the main character's dead wife--IN THE POEM.
Who is Lenore?
200
This is the atmosphere of the story and it makes the reader feel a certain way while reading.
What is Mood?
300
This word means "pale".
What is "pallid"?
300
"Deep into the ______________ peering, long I stood there wondering, _________________. Doubting, dreaming dreams no __________________ ever dared to dream before."
What are "darkness", "fearing", and "mortal"?
300
This cartoon character was the man who the poem was about.
Who is Homer?
300
December; because it sets a tone of mystery and coldness, which makes the poem's setting creepy.
What is the month and season of the narrative poem, "The Raven"? Why does the poet choose this month and season?
300
This is the literary term that is saying something in a story but meaning something else.
What is Inference?
400
This word means cowardly and rhymes with raven.
What is "craven"?
400
As he sat alone and it snowed more and more, the student started to feel ____________________--once he realized that all of the students and staff had already went home for early dismissal.
What is "desolate"?
400
What color are the curtains of the window in the cartoon? Why did the poet choose this particular color?
What is purple? Why is "to show darkness", to set the mood or setting, and/or to represent the visual of darkness.
400
This is the word that the Raven does and will only ever say.
What is "Nevermore"?
400
This is a story about someone's life written by someone else.
What is Biography?
500
This word describes a CALM lake.
What is "placid"?
500
He opened his _____________________ door to see what all the tapping and rapping was about.
What is "chamber"?
500
This character pointed out mood being created in the story.
Who is Lisa?
500
The literary term for this: "silken, sad uncertain rustling curtains" and "grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt"?
What is "alliteration"?
500
This is a story of someone's life written by that person.
What is Autobiography?
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