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In "The Duel" Ivan opposes his:
lack of courage
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What is the conflict of "The Duel" ?
man v.s. man
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Does literature always provide a resolution for the conflict ?
no
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In "The Duel" , do you think the social values of the setting trigger the story's conflict ?
yes
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(the duel) Ivan Golubenko's internal conflicts cause him to feel two very strong emotions . What are they?
shame and guilt
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(the duel) What does Ivan not do?
tell the mother of her son's death
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(the duel) Why did the son's mother think he was up all night? What was he doing?
he was in love; pacing back and forth
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Describe the setting of the room?
dark
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midnight
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dreary
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Describe the speaker
mysterious
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suspense
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sad suffering
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lose of love
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What does the narrator expect to find when he opens the door?
a visitor, Lenore
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What does he find instead?
Darkness there and nothing more
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What is his first reaction to the Raven?
amuse
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smiling to have company (glad)
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When the Raven first says "Nevermore" what is the speaker's guess as to why?
he though it was the birds name
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What is his next guess as to why the Raven is saying "Nevermore" ?
someone taught him the word (to torture the speaker)
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The theme of the Raven is best described as the pain of_______________?
loss of love
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We can infer from the ending of the poem?
he will never escape from suffering, despair, or sadness
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What does the Raven symbolize?
obsessive mourning
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Which word in the first stanza is an example of onomatopoeia?
tapping
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What does the speaker feel when he first thinks that Lenore may be at his door?
hope and terror (scared)
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Paraphrase lines 55-56
that the Raven only spoke one word
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List 3 verbs that show what the poem's narrator is doing in the first stanza
napping
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pondered
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nodded
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The narrator of the poem is sad because his lost love is dead. What is her name and how does he try to escape his sorrow?
Lenore, by reading
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What fills the narrator's heart with terror in stanza 3?
the movement of purple curtains
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What does the narrator see when he first opens the chamber door (stanza 4)?
darkness
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In stanza 7, the Raven flies into the narrator's chamber, where does the Raven perch?
bust of Pallas over the chamber door
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What is the Raven's only answer to the narrator's questions?
Nevermore
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In stanza 12, the narrator sits down in front of the raven, what is the narrator thinking as he looks at the bird?
he was trying to figure out why the bird kept saying "Nevermore"
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As the poem progresses, the narrator becomes more and more furious with the raven. Why does he become so angry?
because the Raven never answered his questions and he kept saying "Nevermore"
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Where is the raven at the end of the poem (stanza 18)? What does the raven's presence tell the reader about the narrator's grief?
still sitting, he will keep suffering
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Edgar Allan Poe is famous for using symbolism in his stories and poetry. How could the raven be symbol in this poem? What clues does Poe give you to imply that the raven is a symbol rather than a little creature?
raven = sadness
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death
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bird of prey
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Poe is also famous for using allusions in his writing. Use your glossary of literary terms to define allusion. The find and write down two examples from "The Raven". Next to each example you provide, write down the type of allusion it is (literary, mythological, biblical, etc.).
allusion = bus of Pallas
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Night's Plutonian share
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both are myth
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How would you describe the atmosphere created by the setting? Which images in the beginning of the poem create this atmosphere?
based on the mood of the narrator
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who was clergyman (man)
miss hinch
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who was the woman (old lady)
jessie dark
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list 3 terms about miss hinch(clergyman)
short&fat,has a beard, and she is crippled
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list 3 terms about jessie dark (old lady)
elerdy,white hair, nervous:breathing hard
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list 3 terms about both miss hinch and jessie dark
both disguised,both short,they were both hungry
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what is the conflict in this story?
man vs man
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who are the 2 individuals who received notes telling whereabouts of miss hinch?
the fat police officer and the waiter at Miller's restaurant
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where do the clergy man and the elderly lady go after they leave the ticket chopper at the train station
they go to miller's restaurant (diner)
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what object causes the true identity of miss Hinch to be revealed to the police
a hair pin; the hair pin pulled down "his" beard revealing "him" as miss hinch
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what was miss hinch
she was a murder with a pointy chin
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what was jessie dark
he was in investigator reporter who claim to be the woman
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what was the setting of miss Hinch
it was in a subway station,it was cold, and it was around 1911
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Who is the protagonist of the story
jessie dark
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Who is the antagonist of the story
miss hinch
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Who were the minor characters in the story
people of the tube, John Catherwood,old man with a cane, and the young couple
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what scripture applies to the story
Numbers 32:23 ; "your sin will always find you out"