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What sound device does Poe employ in the following lines from "The Raven"?
    Line 72 : Meant in croaking " Nevermore.
A. consonance (the repetition of consonants especially at the end of stressed syllables)
B. onomatopoeia (a word sounds Eke its definition)
C. repetition (repetition of a word or phrase)

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84- Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'
 
'Prophet' said I, 'thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devill -
Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted -
On this home by horror haunted - tell me truly, I implore -
Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - tell me, I implorel'
90- Quoth the raven, ' Nevermore.'
 
- Prophet' said I, 'thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore -
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels named Lenore?'
96- Quoth the raven, ' Nevermore.'
 
'Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend! I shrieked upstarting -
'Get thee back into the tempest and the Nights Plutonian shore!
 
In addition to the rhyme at the end of the lines in his poem, "The Raven," Poe uses rhyme within the lines, such as "Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow."
Another example of this "internal rhyme" is
A. Line 89
B. Line 85
C. Line 98
     The Raven
by Edgar Allan Poe
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 -
6- Only this, and nothing more.'
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had.....
 
some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; -
18- This it is, and nothing more,'
Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
'Sir,' said I, 'or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you' - here I 
chamber door -
42- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
 
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, 'art sure no craven.
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore -
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'
48- Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'
 
In addition to the rhyme at the end of the lines in "The Raven," Poe uses rhyme within the lines, such as "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary."
Another example of this "internal rhyme" is which of the following lines?
A. Line 18
B. Line 6
C. Line 43
I could not stop for Death
     by Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death
He kindly stopped for me
The carriage held but just Ourselves
4- And Immortality.
 
We slowly drove - He knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
8- For His Civility -
 
We passed the School, where Children strove,
At Recess - in the Ring -
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
12- We passed the Setting Sun -
 
Or rather - He passed Us
The Dews grew quivering and chill
For only Gossamer my Gown
16- My Tippet - only Tulle -
 
Which poetic device does Dickinson use in the following lines of "Because I could not stop for Death"?
    Line 15: "For only Gossamerr my Gown --"
A. metaphor (the comparison of two unlike things)
B. alliteration (repetition of first consonant sound in a string of words)
C. simile (the comparison of two unlike things using "as" or "like")

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