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Key events 20 points Characters and connections Find 3 examples of figurative

10 points language and explain them .
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Narrator - Alliteration: the silken

- He heard a tapping Lenore sad uncertain
and a gentle rapping The raven
at his chamber door. Emphasizing the haunted and
They connect: Because the suggestible nature of the
“Suddenly there came narrator has made the bird speaker's mind.
a tapping, as of say over and over nevermore
someone gently so that Poe would never get - Metaphor: “to the fowl
rapping, rapping at my over his love, Lenore. whose fiery eyes now
chamber door. burned into my
bosom’s core”

- He claims that the A metaphor comparing the

Raven is a bird of the bird's eyes with fire.
Devil.

“Prophet! Said I, thing - Metaphor: “And the

of evil!-Prophet still, if silken, sad, uncertain
bird or devil! By that rustling of each purple
Heaven that bends curtain thrilled me-
above us. filled me with fantastic
terrors never felt
before.”
- When Poe whispers
outside his chamber It suggests that the curtains
door the words themselves are "sad" and
Lenore and an echo "uncertain," mirroring the
came back saying speaker's feelings.
Lenore back to him.

“But the silence was

unbroken, and the
stillness gave no
token, And the only
word that was spoken
was the whispered
word, “Lenore?” This I
whispered and an
echo murmured back
the word “Lenore!”.
 Key events 20 points Characters and connections Find 3 examples of figurative
10 points language and explain them .
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