Introduction to Mystery and Suspense: "The Raven"
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Read the first stanza from "The Raven."
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak
and weary.
Only this and nothing more."
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten
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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
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Which best describes the scene that the author is
setting through the use of imagery in the stanza?
O The speaker is up late at night reading and hears a
knocking sound.
O The speaker is sleeping and is awakened by
someone calling to him.
The speaker is reading a ghost story and imagines
that he sees a ghost.
The speaker is napping and does not hear a visitor
who taps on the door.

In this passage, we can imagine someone who was up at night meditating and dozed off in the process. Then he hears a sound that indicates that someone was calling out to them.

So we can say that the speaker was sleeping and was now awakened by a visitor.

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anthougo anthougo · Answer 2 · 2022-07-24T00:44:14+02:00

The best sentence that describes the scene the author is setting using imagery in the first stanza from "The Raven" is B. The speaker is sleeping and awakened by someone calling to him.

What is imagery?

Imagery provides a visual or vivid appeal to the five senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

Authors use imagery to enable the reader to create clear mental pictures of the scene and become empathetic with the narrator or characters.

Thus, the best description of the use of imagery in the first stanza of "The Raven" is Option B.

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