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The Raven
by Edgar Allen Poe (adapted excerpt)
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.
'Tis some visitor, I muttered, tapping at my chamber door-
Only this, and nothing more."
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its form upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow,- vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow-sorrow for the lost Lenore
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore-
Nameless here for evermore.
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me-filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door, -
This it is, and nothing more,"
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Select the correct answer.
Who did the speaker think was "rapping at the chamber door"?
O A.
an illusion
B.
a raven
C.
a visitor
a maiden
○ D.
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In the excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven," the speaker thought that the entity rapping at the chamber door was a visitor. The speaker initially assumes it is a visitor seeking entrance, as expressed in the lines: "As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. 'Tis some visitor, I muttered, tapping at my chamber door." The speaker dismisses the idea of it being something else and concludes that it must be a visitor seeking entry. The correct answer is: C. a visitor The speaker's perception of the rapping as that of a visitor is essential to the narrative of the poem, setting the tone for the mysterious and eerie events that follow as the poem unfolds.

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