Question

Which lines in this excerpt from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe use allusion?

Answer 1

Answer:

• "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
• On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;

An allusion is a reference to an object or a circumstance from an unrelated context. This reference tends to be done indirectly, and usually without explanation, so that the reader can make the connection by himself. In this case, the "Plutonian shore" refers to the afterlife (guarded by Pluto), while the bust of Pallas refers to the goddess of wisdom, Athena.

Answer 2

Question 22 (3 points)

Read this excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven":

Leave my loneliness unbroken! -- quit the bust above my door!

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!

Lines such as these allow poe to create in the poem a mood of _____?.

A. Hope

B. Indifference

C. Despair

D. Compassion

Answer is: C. Despair

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