"Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before"
In this scene, we observe features of american gothic literature, such as a dark gloomy creepy cementary at night. we can also observe religious remarks from the cross since he talks a lot about death, angels, demons, and hell in the poem The Raven. By: Joseph Cohen
Alliteration
"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping"
Internal Rhyme
*tap
We know that from the poem that Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator, was living in a castle, as we can observe in line 3, stanza 1, the tapping came suddenly, unexpectedly, he didn't know where, what, or who, was there. Here, we can observe a mysterious figure knocking (tapping) on his chamber door. By: Joseph Cohen
*Quaff
"Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!"
In this scene we can observe the raven perched atop the Pallas in Edgar Allan Poe's room, we can also see the spirit of Lenore since he is talking about drinking a mythological drink that is supposed to comfort grieving people and he was grieving the loss of his dead wife, Lenore. By: Joseph Cohen