Grade 7 Quiz The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

NAME:

DATE: / /2012

And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain

Thrilled me filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
In lines above find the two words that are an example of internal rhyme:
____________________________ ______________________________
In the lines above find the two words that are an example of alliteration:
______________________ ______________________
What is the setting of The Raven? Include month and weather.
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Put the events in The Raven in order by writing the numbers 1-6 on the lines
provided.
____ The narrator hears something at the window and opens it.
____ The raven comes in and perches above the narrators door.
____ The narrator questions whether the bird is natural or supernatural.
____ The narrator reads by the fire.
____ The narrator yells at the raven to leave.
____ The narrator whispers Lenore into the hallway.
Sentences:
Obeisance (n.) _____________________________________________________
Chamber (n.)______________________________________________________
Discourse (n.) _____________________________________________________
Placid (adj.) ______________________________________________________
Pallid (adj.)_______________________________________________________
Matching:
A

Entreat

_____________

Ask earnestly or anxiously for

(something)

Surcease

_____________

Relief or consolation

C
D

Ominous

_____________

Melancholy

Giving the impression that something

bad or unpleasant is going to happen.

_____________

Sad, gloomy, or depressed