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Identify the sound device at work in a line of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" and say what it does to tone and pace.
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In Poe's "The Raven": "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary," Which device do "dreary" and "weary" show?
In Poe's "The Raven": "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary," What does the soft repeated w sound in "weak and weary" do?
In Poe's "The Raven": "Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore" Which device is at work in "quaint and curious"?
In Poe's "The Raven": "While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping," Which pair rhymes inside this line?
In Poe's "The Raven": "While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping," What do the repeated n sounds add?
In Poe's "The Raven": "As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door." Which word imitates the sound it names?
In Poe's "The Raven": "As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door." What does saying "rapping" twice do?
Poe closes one stanza of "The Raven" "Only this and nothing more." and a later one "Darkness there and nothing more." What does this repeated ending do?
In Poe's "The Raven": "From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore" What does repeating "sorrow" do?
In Poe's "The Raven": "For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore" Which device repeats the long a vowel in "maiden," "angels" and "name"?
In Poe's "The Raven": "For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore" What does the pair "rare and radiant" do for Lenore?
In Poe's "The Raven": "And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain" What do the repeated s sounds imitate?
In Poe's "The Raven": "And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain" Which device do "uncertain" and "curtain" show?
In Poe's "The Raven": "Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;" What does the quick echo of "Thrilled" in "filled" do to the pace?
In Poe's "The Raven": "So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating" What does the rhyme of "beating" and "repeating" add?
Which phrase from Poe's "The Raven" uses onomatopoeia?
In Poe's "The Raven," the line "Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer," contains an internal rhyme.
In Poe's "The Raven": "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing," What do the heavy d sounds add?
In Poe's "The Raven": "Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;" What does repeating forms of "dream" show about the speaker?
In Poe's "The Raven": "But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token," Which pair rhymes inside this line?
In Poe's "The Raven": "and an echo murmured back the word, 'Lenore!'" Which word imitates a sound?
In Poe's "The Raven": "Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning," The words "turning" and "burning" do not rhyme with each other.
In Poe's "The Raven": "'Surely,' said I, 'surely that is something at my window lattice;" What does saying "surely" twice show?
In Poe's "The Raven": "Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter," What do the quick f sounds in "flirt and flutter" suggest?
In Poe's "The Raven": "Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter," Which device do "shutter" and "flutter" show?
In Poe's "The Raven": "In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore;" What does the repeated s sound add to the bird's entrance?
Which phrase from Poe's "The Raven" repeats a vowel sound rather than a first consonant sound?
In Poe's "The Raven": "Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door— / Perched, and sat, and nothing more." What does repeating "Perched" do?
In Poe's "The Raven": "Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling," Which device do "bird" and "beguiling" show?
In Poe's "The Raven": "Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore" What do the hard g sounds do to the bird?
In Poe's "The Raven": "this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly," Which pair rhymes inside this line?
In Poe's "The Raven": "But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only" What does the rhyme of "lonely" and "only" stress?
In Poe's "The Raven": "Nothing farther then he uttered—not a feather then he fluttered" Which device do "farther," "feather" and "fluttered" share?
In Poe's "The Raven": "Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore" What does "Followed fast and followed faster" do to the pace?
In Poe's "The Raven": "What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore" What does the string of harsh adjectives do?
Which phrase from Poe's "The Raven" repeats a whole word?
In Poe's "The Raven": "But whose velvet-violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er," Which device repeats the v, l and t sounds in "velvet-violet"?
In Poe's "The Raven": "Swung by seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor." Which word imitates a sound?
In Poe's "The Raven": "Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!" What does repeating "quaff" add to the speaker's voice?
Poe ends stanza after stanza of "The Raven" with the line "Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore.'" What does this repeated closing line do?
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