I would say that the line from Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven that provides information about the setting of the poem is:
<span>As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
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Based on this line, we see that the setting is in a chamber.
Answer: A. The simile "like percussionists" helps to create a marching rhythm, which intensifies the poem's serious tone
The answer to #4 is "By" because a preposition word is a word that procedes to a noun or a pronoun. Some examples are "after", "against", "before", "behind", "below", ect... In this case the preposition is "by" and it procedes to the words "royal proclamanation"