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Root/Prefix/Suffix
"The Raven"
Rhetorical Devices
Vocabulary
Other/Random
100
The meaning of this prefix is all, every
What is omni
100
From "The Raven": At first the speaker thinks the noise he hears is this.
What is someone at the door
100
This is person, place, thing, or event used to represent something else
What is symbol
100
This word means predicted to lead to death, esp. slowly; incurable.
What is terminal
100
This is the attitude or viewpoint that an author shows toward his\her subject
What is tone
200
The meaning of this prefix is not.
What is in- or -un
200
From "The Raven": When the narrator opens the door and looks out, he half excepts to find this
What is the woman he loved, who has died. Lenore
200
This is the central idea of a literary work
What is a theme
200
To drink heartily
What is quaff
200
Dark Romantics are different than Romantics because they are more this.
What is pessimistic and evil
300
The meaning of this prefix is from, down, away. against.
What is de
300
From "The Raven": When the Raven says, "Nevermore," the speaker takes this response to be this
What is the bird's name
300
This is the use of descriptive language that appeals to the readers senses.
What is imagery
300
This word means unattractive
What is ungainly
300
The quote "What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and omnious bird of yore..." is example of sound effects created by this
What is alliteration
400
The suffix -ion makes all words this
What is a noun
400
From "The Raven": At first encounter, the speaker's reaction to the Raven is this
What is amusement
400
This is the repetition of a consonant sound.
What is alliteration.
400
A sign or warning that (something, esp. something momentous) is likely to happen.
What is portend.
400
Dark romanticism and romanticism deals with this
What is the internal
500
This suffix means the quality or realtion
What is -ic
500
From "The Raven": The poet has the Raven perch on the bust of the Greek goddess of Pallas to associate the raven to be this
What is wise.
500
A brilliant young woman I know was asked once to support her argument in favor of social welfare. She named the most powerful source imaginable: the look in a mother's face when she cannot feed her children. Can you look that hungry child in the eyes? See the blood on his feet from working barefoot in the cotton fields. Or do you ask his baby sister with her belly swollen from hunger if she cares about her daddy's work ethics? —The Great Debaters is an example of which appeal (pathos, ethos, logos)?
What is pathos
500
A synonym to the word euthanasia is this
What is mercy killing
500
When Descartes said, “I think; therefore, I am,” his statement reflected the kind of thought and being he believed to be most real. He did not claim, as Pascal would later do, that our being has as much to do with feeling as it does thinking. Descartes here equates pure rationality and pure being, persuading us of the accuracy of this equation by the simplicity of his statement. This is an example of which appeal (ethos, pathos, logos)?
What is logos