Question

1. Which describes the mood created by the setting of "The Raven"?

Answer 1

QUESTION 1: The correct answer is A.

The mood created in Poe's poem "The Raven," is gloomy because it tells the tale of a man filled with sorrow caused by the loss of his lover, which is worsened by the visit of a misterious raven.

QUESTION 2: The correct answer is A.

The refrain the raven repeats during the poem is "Nevermore."

QUESTION 3: The correct answer is B.

Both "lordy name" and "Night's Plutonian shore" refer to Pluto. In classical Greco-Roman mythology Pluto was the ruler of the underworld.

QUESTION 4: The correct answer is A.

The words "napping" and "tapping" rhyme. This is known as internal rhyme, since the two words are within a single line of verse.