Which lines in this excerpt from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe use allusion?

"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."

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor:
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted—nevermore!

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Answer:

  • "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
  • On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;

An allusion is a reference to an object or a circumstance from an unrelated context. This reference tends to be done indirectly, and usually without explanation, so that the reader can make the connection by himself. In this case, the "Plutonian shore" refers to the afterlife (guarded by Pluto), while the bust of Pallas refers to the goddess of wisdom, Athena.

Question 22 (3 points)

Read this excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven":

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!

Lines such as these allow poe to create in the poem a mood of _____?.

A. Hope

B. Indifference

C. Despair

D. Compassion

Answer is: C. Despair

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