LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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It tells how the sun came to be
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It does not have a moral or lesson
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It is not about princesses and magic
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” (1845) is a poem centered around an unnamed narrator’s journey into madness after realizing he will never forget his lost Lenore. Poe uses symbols such as a talking raven, a bust of Pallas, and the narrator’s chamber to share the story while representing his narrator’s struggle with grief.
Detailed explanation-2: -The titular raven represents the speaker’s unending grief over the loss of Lenore. Ravens traditionally carry a connotation of death, as the speaker himself notes when he refers to the bird as coming from “Night’s Plutonian shore, ” or the underworld.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: At the end of “The Raven, ” the raven is still sitting on the bust of Pallas. In the last stanza of the poem, the narrator notes that the Raven is “never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting/ On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door."