"The Raven"
A dark, dreary December night a man sits in his room reading a book very late at night.
What is the setting of "The Raven"?
The feeling a poet creates to suggest an emotion.
What is mood?
When one text mentions/refers to another text, piece of art, historical event, mythology, etc.
What is allusion?
When two (or more) words within one line rhyme
What is internal rhyme?
A poem where one or more characters speak.
What is dramatic poetry.
When a tangible object represents an abstract idea.
What is symbolism?
An unrhymed poem that contains exactly 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables each.
What is Haiku?
When the same word or phrase is repeated throughout the poetry at the BEGINNING OF A LINE.
What is anaphora?
When the ends of lines of poetry rhyme.
What is external rhyme?
What rhyme structure is present in the following stanza:
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary/ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,/ While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping/ As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door/ 'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door - / Only this, and nothing more.'
What is ABCBBB?
Simile or metaphor: "Take thy beak from out they heart..."
What is metaphor?
The reflection of the poet or authors attitude toward the subject of the poem.
What is tone?
The meaning of "For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore - / Nameless here for evermore."
What is Lenore is dead/in heaven?
The pattern of how lines in a stanza rhyme together
What is rhyme scheme?
A figure of speech using 'like' or 'as' to compare two seemingly unlike things.
Someone whose perspective within a written work cannot be trusted/ may not be accurate.
What is a unreliable narrator?
A poem in verse that tells a story.
What is narrative poetry?
The type of rhyme used in, "Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking"
What is internal rhyme?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
On the lines 2,4,5, & 6, the raven words only sound the same at the end of those lines.
What is end rhyme?
Typical Poe narrator.
What is un-named and 1st person POV?
The basic rhythmic structure of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry with 16 syllables and 8 feet.
What is trochiac octameter?
Definition of allusion?
What is "to refer indirectly"?
The repetition of vowel within a line of poetry.
What is assonance?
Desciptive language that applies to the senses - sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell.
What is imagery?