2. read the following excerpt from edgar allen poe's "the raven": "be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend! " i shrieked upstarting— "get thee back into the tempest and the night's plutonian shore! leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! leave my loneliness unbroken! —quit the bust above my door! take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door! " quoth the raven, "nevermore." describe the effects of poe's use of literary devices in the poem. in particular, explain how the excerpt's rhyme scheme and repetition are meant to affect the reader. provide evidence for your analysis from the text. (10 points)

The use of rhyme and repetition in "The Raven", by Edgar Allan Poe, are meant to affect the reader in the following way:

It causes the reader to sense how desperate and devastated the speaker is.

Since the raven is a symbol of death and loneliness, as well as of a somber state of mind, the speaker wants it to leave his house. The presence of the animal affects the speaker in an unbearable way, since it reminds him of the loss of his significant other.

The rhymes make it for a feeling of frantic desperation, whereas the repetition, particularly "nothing more" and "nevermore", shows how strongly mourning affects the speaker, how devastated he is.

We can see how badly the speaker wants the bird to leave in the following passage:

"Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my

door!"

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

The use of the rhyme scheme in the excerpt is important to the excerpt as it allows the audience to get a better understanding of the atmosphere. The rhyming of words is used by Poe to symbolize the advanced levels of emotion that the narrator is feeling from the raven. The use of the raven also symbolizes the despair and loneliness from the narrator’s loss of his significant other. This reminds the narrator of his loss causing his emotions to increase, and the usage of the rhymes and the words rhymed together shows just how distraught the narrator is – these words being token, spoken, and unbroken. The repetition is used to show just how desperate the narrator is, as the main thing on his mind at the moment is what he is repeating, which allows the audience to get a better understanding of the characters in the scene.

- "the die is cast; i have consented to return if we are not destroyed. thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision; i come back ignorant and disappointed. it requires more philosophy than i possess to bear this injustice with patience. i have lost my hopes of utility and glory; i have lost my friend."

"fire and ice" is one of robert frost's most popular poems. it was published in december 1920 in harper's magazine and in 1923 in his pulitzer prize−winning book new hampshire. it discusses the end of the world, likening the elemental force of fire with the emotion of desire, and ice with hate.

c. the power of desire is greater than the power of hate.