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Sound and imagery questions based on The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (1845).
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In “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,” what sound device links “dreary” and “weary”?
In “While I nodded, nearly napping,” what sound device is created by the repeated initial n sounds?
In “As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door,” what sound device comes from saying “rapping” twice?
In “Eagerly I wished the morrow... vainly I had sought to borrow,” what sound device links “morrow” and “borrow”?
In “And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain,” what sound device is strongest in “silken, sad”?
When the line “Quoth the Raven ‘Nevermore’” recurs at stanza endings, what structural sound device is Poe using?
The line "While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping" shifts into repeated taps. How does that sound pattern affect the pace?
In "Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter," how do the rhyming sounds affect the raven's entrance?
"And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling..." repeats soft s sounds. What mood do the sounds build?
Poe writes, "Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." How does the repeated d sound affect mood?
Poe describes "unmerciful Disaster" that "Followed fast and followed faster." How do the repeated sounds affect pace?
The speaker says the raven will leave him tomorrow, "as my Hopes have flown before." Then the bird says "Nevermore." What effect does the refrain have here?
After "Quaff...nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!" the raven replies "Nevermore." What does the refrain do?
After "Is there—is there balm in Gilead?" the raven answers "Nevermore." What does the refrain suggest in this moment?
The speaker asks whether he will clasp Lenore in "distant Aidenn." The raven says "Nevermore." What happens to the refrain's force?
The poem ends, "my soul from out that shadow...Shall be lifted—nevermore!" What role does the final refrain play?
What mood comes from "the bleak December" and "each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor"?
What does the image of the raven sitting "on the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door" contribute to the scene?
The speaker sees the fowl "whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core." What mood does this image create?
Poe writes that the air "grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer" swung by angels. What mood does this image create?
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