History
Plot/Main Idea
Literary Elements
Literary Interpretation
Music
100
Winter (December)
What is the season in which the poem takes place?
100
Comparison between two things using the word "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary”
What is literary interpretation of the subconscious version?
100
Pyotr ll'yich Tchaikovsky
Who is the composer?
200
John Allan
Who was Poe's foster father?
200
The word that the raven always repeats
What is 'Nevermore"?
200
A well developed character
What is a round character?
200
"So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, " 'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door- Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door, this it is nothing more.”
What is literary interpretation of the conscious version?
200
Russian
What is the composer's ethnicity?
300
She died destitute in a Richmond, Virginia, rooming house when Poe was two years old.
What happened to Poe's mother?
300
An aspect of tone and mood
What is melancholy?
300
A short story writer should deliberately subordinate everything in the story to bring out a single thought
What is the effect?
300
Loss of his mother (1854)
What is the composer traumatized by?
400
Complicated. Mostly subject to tragic losses though often darkly romantic.
What is Poe's relationship with women?
400
The analysis of verse to show its meter
What is scansion?
400
A symbol of death
What is the raven?
400
1840-1893
What are the years in which the composer lived?
500
Married her and is also Poe's cousin
Who is Virginia Clemm?
500
The repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words
What is consonance?
500
A symbol of idealized love
Who is Lenore?
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