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Unit 3—American Lit. Name __________________
The Raven
Questions & Vocab Period ______
1. Why is the speaker
in his library when the poem begins?
2. Where does the rapping
come from at first? Where does it come from the second time?
3. Where does the raven
perch?
4. What does the speaker
ask the raven about Lenore?
5. Why does the speaker
tell the raven to leave?
6. What is the setting
of the story? Does the setting change throughout the poem?
Put the events in
��The Raven�� in order by writing the numbers 1-6 on the lines provided.
7. The raven comes in and perches above the narrator��s door. _____________________
8. The narrator yells at the raven to leave. _____________________________________
9. The narrator whispers ��Lenore�� into the hallway. _____________________________
10. The narrator questions whether the bird is natural or supernatural. _______________
11. The narrator reads by the fire. ____________________________________________
12. The narrator hears
something at the window and opens it. ______________________
13. Textual Analysis
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not an instant stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door-
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door-
Perched, and sat, and nothing
more.
Explain what happens in the stanza above:
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14. Essay
(a) During the course
of ��The Raven,�� what changes occur in the speaker��s attitude toward
the bird? (b) What brings about each change? (c)
What does the Raven finally come to represent?
Vocab
A: Meaning Clues
Read each magazine article
title and write the vocabulary word below it that you would expect to
find in the article.
15. ��Wild Weather:
Protecting Yourself from the Elements��
16. ��How to Ask for
Forgiveness��and Get It��
17. ��Vacation Spots
for When You Really Need a Break��
18. ��Modern Manners
for Modern Times��
19. ��Flee or Fight?
What to Do When You��re in Danger��
20. ��Tossing and Turning?
You Too Can Sleep Like a Rock��
21. ��How to Hold Up
Your End of the Conversation��
22. ��Putting That Certain
Someone Under Your Spell��
B: Fill in the Blank
Decide which word from the
vocab list belongs on each numbered blank. Then write the word
on the blank line on the right.
23. She is so appealing, her behavior so (1) that everyone _____________________
she knows responds to seeing her by smiling.
(1)
24. The gallows, (2) against the sky, turned my _____________________
warm blood to ice as I rode by.
(2)
25. Your whistling makes it so hard to ignore you. You��re _____________________
driving me nuts! Please, just stop, I (3)
you! (3)
26. He used to be quite vicious, but the drug has worked and _____________________
now the vet can fix his teeth, for he��s as (4) as a cow. (4)
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