Literary Devices
"And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could"
is an example of this literary device.
What is "end rhyme?"
This poem brought Poe fame, not money.
What is "The Raven?"
This is the name of a group of lines in a poem.
What is stanza?
"The Raven" takes place in this month.
What is "December?"
The narrator visits the old man at this time everynight.
What is "midnight?" (12:00AM)
The repetition of a consonant sound is this literary device ("While I nodded nearly napping").
What is "alliteration?"
Poe wrote this poem two years after his wife died.
What is "Annabel Lee?"
A word for angel, which Poe uses in two of the poems we read.
What is, seraph?
The narrator of "Annabel Lee" blames this being for killing Annabel Lee.
What is the "seraphs of Heaven" (or angels)?
This sense is the most acute in the narrator.
What is "hearing?"
The word for "word choice."
What is "diction?"
Of the text we've read, Poe wrote this one first.
What is "The Tell-Tale Heart?"
The word for "tomb," repeated in the poem "Annabel Lee."
What is "sepulchre?"
At the beginning of "The Raven," the narrator ponders over a volume of this.
What is "lore?"
It takes the narrator this long to put his head through the door.
What is "one hour?"
"Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow" is an example of this literary device.
What is "internal rhyme?"
According to Poe, this is the saddest thing that can happen to a person.
What is, the death of a woman you love?
The narrator in "The Raven" refers to the shore as THIS type of shore ("Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s ___________ shore!")
What is "Plutonian?"
At the end of "The Raven," the narrator says that his will stay here.
This is the first word of the story.
What is "True?"
The device when a sentence in poetry is split between two lines.
What is "enjambment?"
This is the name of the theory that Poe created, where all elements of a literary work are geared towards creating one impression.
What is, the Unity of Effect?
This is the word from "The Raven" that means "a potion used to forget sadness" ("Respite—respite and ___________ from thy memories of Lenore").
What is "nepenthe?"
Poe writes that the Raven sits on the bust of this goddess.
What is "Pallas?"
The name of the beetles that the old man hears in the walls.
What are "death watch beetles?"