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Question 1
1.

Edgar Allan Poe was raised by loving parents.

Question 2
2.

Edgar Allan Poe was a good student.

Question 3
3.

Edgar Allan Poe first published collections of poetry won him much acclaim.

Question 4
4.

Edgar Allan Poe often worked as an editor.

Question 5
5.

Edgar Allan Poe's wife ran away and left him.

Question 6
6.

Edgar Allan Poe outlived many of his critics and continued writing many stories, poems, and editorials making him popular in his own time.

Question 7
7.

Choose at least 3 things from the following list that Poe is given credit for.

Question 8
8.

The setting of The Raven is _____.

Question 9
9.

Lenore was ______.

Question 10
10.

What woke the narrator?

Question 11
11.

What does the narrator find when he opens the door?

Question 12
12.

Pallas is an allusion to _______.

Question 13
13.

How does the narrator respond to the raven?

Question 14
14.

Which line has the best example of onomatopoeia?

Question 15
15.

How does the raven answer the narrator?

The following are qualities of the gothic genre.
  • A curse or prophecy
  • A damsel
  • A hero
  • Romance
  • Intense emotions
  • Mystery
  • Suspense
  • Supernatural
  • Setting in an old castle or mysterious house
  • Gloom or horror
Question 16
16.

Which of the following is the best example of gothic genre?

Question 17
17.

Which of the following is the best example of gothic genre?

Question 18
18.

Which of the following is the best example of gothic genre?

Question 19
19.

Which literary device is being used in the following line?
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Question 20
20.

Read the following stanza- Based on the text what does ominous mean?
But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore—
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking “Nevermore.”

Question 21
21.

In what ways do you thin the poem, The Raven, reflects Poe's life?