Stanzas 10-12 Questions

Answer the following questions in complete sentences and restating the question in your answer.

1. What does the man say to the raven in Stanza 10 (in your own words)?
2. What does the man think about what the bird replies (in your own words)?
3. What is he thinking about in stanza 12?
4. What do you infer he thinks about the bird in stanza 12?
5. What poetic devise does Poe use quite a bit in stanza 12?

Stanzas 8-9 - Questions

Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
Restate the question within your answer.

1. What phrase helps you infer the mood in stanza 8?
2. What does the man ask the bird in stanza 8?
3. What is strange about the answer?
4. What phrase helps you infer the mood in stanza 9?
5. Why is the man "marvelled" in stanza 9?

Stanza 6-7 Questions

Write the answers to the following questions in complete sentence and restate the question within your answer.

1. What did he hear as he closed the door?
2. What is a lattice?
3. What is the meaning of "this mystery explore" (stanza 6)?
4. What came into the window?
5. What did it do when it came into the room?

Stanza 4-5 Questions

Write answers to the following questions in complete sentences.

1. What does the man say to the person behind the door in stanza 4?
2. What was in the doorway when he opened it?
3. What was going through his mind when he opened the door at the beginning of stanza 5?
4. What did he hear coming through the dark?
5. What did he say back to the dark?

Stanza 2-3 - Questions

Please answer the following questions after you read Stanza 2-3.
Write in complete sentences and restate the questions in your answer.
1. What is the setting of the story?
2. Why can't the man sleep?
3. Who is Lenore?
4. What does he think about Lenore?
5. What does "filled me with fantastic terror" mean?

Stanza 1 - Questions

Please answer the following questions after you read Stanza 1.

Write in complete sentences and restate the questions in your answer.

1. What time is the story set?

2. What was the man doing before he fell asleep?

3. What woke the man?

4. What is a chamber?

5. Who does he believe is tapping?