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Alliteration In The Raven Essay

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1) The story takes place in a large room, used for meeting people, in the narrator’s house. A list of words that is used to describe the setting and atmosphere is: dreary, weak and weary, sorrow, sad, uncertain rustling, darkness, thrilled, terrors, fearing, burning, mystery, nightly, ghastly grim, lonely, stillness, unmerciful disaster, unhappy. 2) The atmosphere seems very melancholy and miserable. The imagery in the beginning of the poem contains: dreary, weak and weary. This also gives it an ‘eerie’ atmosphere which suggests gloom. “…bleak December” indicates that it is a cold, miserable month at the time. 3) My impression of the narrator is that he is a heartbroken man with an unbalanced mental health. He is hurt and sad because his love, Lenore, has left …show more content…

The bird spoke the truth and did not say what the narrator wanted to hear. 13) The word ‘nevermore’ is related to the narrator’s emotional state at the end of the poem because his rationality is ‘nevermore’. He has fallen into insanity and despair. 14) The four examples of alliterations are: “nodded, nearly napping”, “lost Lenore”, “doubting, dreaming dreams” and “tempest tossed thee”. 15) Poe creates suspense in the poem by giving the setting a grey impression. The narrator hears noises outside his door and he is by himself with an old book. When the narrator opened the door, there was no one suggesting a mysterious figure. The narrator’s attitude slowly intensifies until the climax, where it quickly drops to end the story. 16) Words that are used to describe the raven are ebony, ghastly grim, ancient, ominous, gaunt and ungainly. 17) The poem has an uncanniness mood which describes the feeling of being uncomfortably intrigued by something potentially dangerous. The narrator doesn’t know why there is a black bird on his door and whether to fear or to be fascinated by the

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