LITERARY ANALYSIS WORKSHEET Title of selection : The Raven Author : Edgar Allan Poe Genre : Mistery, Horror Setting : Bedroom, House, middle night Historical context : Tells about someone when in the middle of the night or at night a mysterious figure visits by knocking on a door or window in the bedroom. The author wrote this piece to: (author’s purpose): The author suggests to the reader that no human being is eternal. The main idea of this piece is: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, while I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. The message …show more content…
Allusion : The bust of Pallas the raven sits on refers to Pallas Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom. Rhyme : There is also quite a bit of internal rhyme wthin the poem, “But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, “where”unbroken” rhymes with “token”. 1 What was the author’s “tone” toward the subject/person/idea he/she wrote about? Sorrowful. What “point of view” was this piece told from? List word clues that indicate this. The point of view is First person. That thing can knowing in the “while I pondered, weak and weary”. List the conflicts in this selection (internal and/or external): The main conflicts are emotional and internal. The narrator struggles with the death of his beloved Lenore and the loneliness and despair that comes with it. He also struggles with the raven's mysterious presence and his resistance to answering his