Excerpt from “the raven”
by edgar allan poe

1. which lines are most effective in creating suspense in this poem?

a. “from my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost lenore—/ for the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name lenore”

b. “ah, distinctly i remember it was in the bleak december, / and each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.”

c. “but the fact is i was napping, and so gently you came rapping, / and so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,”

d. “and the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain / thrilled me— filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; ”

2. which statement best describes the impact of poe’s use of both internal and end rhyme in this poem?

a. the rhyme makes the poem easier to remember.

b. the lines with internal rhyme are more significant than the lines that only use end rhyme.

c. the rhyme gives the poem an even rhythm and maintains the tension.

d. each use of rhyme marks the end of a phrase or idea.

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Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence in this excerpt from abraham lincoln's second inaugural address conveys that he wanted the us civil war to end as soon as possible? neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just inging their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh" if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether." reset next

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