Richard gave me one of his extra-rotten, weasel-eyed, grinny-toothed grins. I hope I helped :)
Idiom i believe is the answer
The Latin affix "tuss" means a. cough
Answer:
The speaker is thinking about the bleak month of December in lines 7-12.
Explanation:
"The Raven" is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe. The poem is a lamentation of a student who lost his lover, Leonore.
In lines 7-12, the speaker is thinking about the bleak month of December in which his lover, Leonore, passed away. In these lines, the speaker is trying to escape the sorrow of his lover by reading, but he is not able to. Even the dying ember haunted him with the memory of his beloved.
So, the correct answer is he is thinking about the bleak month of December.
The purpose of personification in the above excerpt is to give human characteristic to death which is considered to be a non human. Writers usually use personification in their write ups in order to bring an inanimate objects to life so that their actions and natures will be better understood.
