Question

in Edgar Allan Poe's the raven the speaker says, much I marveled this ungainly fowl to hear dicourse so plainly. what does the speaker mean when he describes the raven as this ungainly fowl? The options are it is clumsy, it is frightening, it is loud, and it is annoying

Answer 1

Answer: A) it is clumsy.

Explanation: the denotation of a word is its literal meaning, the definition that we can find in a dictionary, a word can have several denotations (or definitions). The definition of the word "ungainly" is lacking in smoothness or dexterity, awkward and without grace. And the denotation of the word "fowl" is a domesticated bird kept for its eggs or flesh. So when the speaker says that the raven is an "ungainly fowl" he means that it is a clumsy bird.

Answer 2

He is referring to the bird as clumsy because "ungainly" is define as "awkward" or "clumsy" and "fowl" is another word for "bird"