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Poe II: Sound, Refrain, and Grief in "The Raven" — Homework
Reread "The Raven" aloud at least once before answering.
- 1.Define trochaic meter and explain how it differs from iambic meter.
- 2.Find one example of internal rhyme in the poem.
- 3.Why does the narrator keep asking the raven questions when he knows it can only say one word, learned by rote?
- 4.Name the poem's refrain.
- 5.In six or more sentences, explain why "The Raven" is more accurately read as a poem about psychological grief than a poem about a genuinely prophetic bird, using specific textual evidence.
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