The Raven Make up Assignment

Name: Teacher: Subject: Date: P. __

“The Raven” Make up Assignment DIRECTIONS: Answer the Questions on Binder Paper - NUMBER & LABEL your answers like this:

Write 1: Think 1: Think 4: Write 2: Think 2: Think 5: Write 3: Think 3:

Background Information You Need To Know:

"The Raven" is a wonderful example of narrative poetry.

Narrative poems are one of the genres of poetry.

Narrative poems are like a story, but in poetic form. All narrative poems have characters, setting, and plot, just like a story.

The speaker in a poem is a lot like "point of view" in a story. The speaker is the person who is talking in the poem. Sometimes, it is the poet themselves. Sometimes, the speaker will be a character the poet created.

WRITE Prompt

Definitions:

Tone and mood are closely related literary terms.

Tone is the attitude a writer has about what he or she is writing.

Mood is the audience's emotion response to a work.

Satire: a way of criticizing something such as a group of people or a system, in which you deliberately make them seem funny so that people will see their faults. Matt Groening's long running animated show, The Simpsons is based on satire.

1 WRITE:

Directions: Answer the following questions. Number each question as you answer it, and reflect the question in your answer.

1. Compare the mood of each version of "The Raven" we saw in class. How are they alike?

2. Contrast the tone of each version of "The Raven" we saw in class. How are they different?

3. Compare the two versions of "The Raven" we saw in class. Which do you think would appeal more to Edgar Allan Poe, the author of "The Raven"? Explain your answer.

THINK:

Think: Question 1 Refer to one or more details from the text to support your understanding of what the speaker was doing and what state of mind he was in when the encounter with the Raven occurred. Think: Question 2 Who or what does the speaker originally think is tapping at his door? Use quotes from the text to support your answer. Think: Question 3 Explain what the speaker hopes the Raven will tell him. Support your answer with textual evidence. Think: Question 4 Use context to determine the meaning of the word implore as it is used in “The Raven.” Write your definition of “implore” here and tell how you found it. Then, use a rhyming dictionary to confirm the pronunciation of the word and identify several words in the poem that rhyme with implore.” Think: Question 5 Use context to determine the meaning of the word surcease as it is used in “The Raven.” Write your definition of surcease here and tell how you found it. Then, use a dictionary to determine its precise meaning and pronunciation. Does the precise meaning clarify your understanding of the poem in any way?

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

1. What is most likely the author’s reason for putting the poem into stanzas of five octameter lines, each ending with a short and flat statement? A. The author wants to create a lively, comic atmosphere. B. The author wants to build an ominous mood through repetition. C. The author puts pauses after the stanzas create confusion. D. The poet wants to make the confrontation with the raven peaceful. 2 2. “The Raven” is delivered mainly in ______tense, from a ______point of view. A. past; first person B. present; first person C. past; third person D. present; third person 3. What most closely does the raven perching on the bust of Pallas Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, symbolize in the following passage? 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 a minute 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. A. That the bird is also a figure from Greek mythology. B. That the narrator is wealthy enough to have marble busts for furniture. C. That nature powers over the strongest of human knowledge. D. That the narrator was an antique collector. 4. What is most closely the meaning of the word countenance as it is used in the following passage? Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, “Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore —

A. noun | shoes B. verb | to support C. verb | to allow D. noun | facial expression 5. What is most closely the central theme of the passage below? Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore — For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore — Nameless here for evermore. A. The narrator attempts to distract himself from his grief through reading. B. The fire throws shadows on the floor that look like ghosts. C. Lenore no longer has a name because she is dead. D. The events recounted happened in December.

6. Which line from the text most strongly supports the answer to Question 5? A. “Oh, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December” B. “And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor” C. “Vainly I had sought to borrow / From my books surcease of sorrow” D. “Lenore - nameless here forever more.” 3 7. Which of the following inferences is most strongly supported by the passage below? On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o’er, But whose velvet-violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o’er, She shall press, ah, nevermore! A. The narrator is not very intelligent, despite the fact that he is one of the wealthiest people in the country. B. The velvet cushion is so soft and comfortable that the narrator has started to dream. C. The raven is a reflection of the narrator’s grief for his beloved. D. The narrator has mistaken the raven for his love, returned from the dead.

8. Which line from the text best supports the correct answer to Question 7? A. “This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing” B. “To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core” C. “This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining” D. “But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o’er / She shall press, ah, nevermore!”

9. Place the events in chronological order as they appear in the poem.

A. The narrator hears a knock at the door. B. The narrator curses the raven and demands he leave. C. The raven perches on the bust of Pallas. D. The narrator is reading alone at midnight. FIRST SECOND THIRD FOURTH

10. What is most closely the meaning of ghastly as it is used in the following passage? By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, “Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore — Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!” Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” A. adjective | dreadful B. adjective | unattractive C. adjective | dead D. adjective | pale