Structure
What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABCBBB
What is the relationship between the speaker and Lenore?
Lenore was the speaker's lover who died.
How does the speaker feel at the beginning of the poem?
Sorrowful about missing his dead love.
When is this poem set?
Midnight in December
What football team is named after this poem?
The Baltimore Ravens
What figurative Language is used in the following quote? “Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;” (26)
Which option best describes the speaker's attitude toward the raven?
angry and frightened
What happens when the speaker opens the door?
No one is there.
Where is this poem set?
At the speakers home.
What small black bird is commonly confused with ravens?
Crows.
What figurative language is used is the following quote? "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”
Metaphor
Why does the speaker become angry with the raven?
It replies "nevermore" when the speaker asks if he will be reunited with Lenore.
What happens when the reader opens the window?
A raven enters the speaker's room and perches on a statue.
What is the raven a symbol of?
the speaker’s grief
Ravens are a part of what family of birds?
Corvids
What figurative language is used in the following line? "On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before.”
Personification
What is the speaker's name?
We don't know.
At the end of the poem, the raven...
remains where it was sitting in the speaker's room.
What does the bust of Pallas likely symbolize?
Wisdom/the mind
Ravens sometimes become hunting partners and friends with what animal?
Wolves
How does the overall use of repetition in the poem contribute to its mood?
The poem's use of repetition — namely the tapping, the narrator's calls for Lenore, and the raven's catchphrase of "Nevermore" — contributes to the overall suspenseful, eerie mood.
How do the allusions, or references, made to Pallas (Athena) and Pluto (Hades) inform the character of the raven?
These allusions make the raven seem otherworldly and informs his symbolic nature as a possible messenger from the afterlife.
What is the central theme of the text?
Loss and grief can have powerful effects on the mind.
Who is the Author?
Edgar Allan Poe
Two ravens, Thought and Memory, where massagers of what Norse god?
Odin