Starter quiz
- In the poem 'The Raven', who is Lenore?
- The raven
- Pallas Athena
- The speaker
- The speaker's wife ✓
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- What word refers to an image that represents or stands in the place of an idea or emotion?
- Metaphor
- Symbol ✓
- Simile
- Personification
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- What does the raven symbolise in Edgar Allan Poe's poem 'The Raven'?
- The speaker's love for Lenore.
- The speaker's love of the wild outdoors.
- The speaker's sense of loss and despair. ✓
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- In literature, what do we mean by 'setting'?
- Time and place ✓
- Time, place and characters
- Time and plot
- Characters and time of day
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- 'The Raven' is a good example of the Gothic because it focuses on...
- Bleak settings and a talking bird.
- Bleak settings and a melancholy hero. ✓
- Death, bad weather and a talking bird.
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- Select the best summary of 'The Raven'.
- A hopeful poem about the afterlife.
- A haunting poem about melancholy and madness. ✓
- A frightening poem about the supernatural.
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Exit quiz
- Which word means 'full of light'?
- Dominion
- Seraph
- Radiant ✓
- Assail
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- Which of these words are the best connotations of the title 'The Haunted Palace'?
- Royalty ✓
- Supernatural ✓
- Magnificence ✓
- Madness
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- In literature, what are buildings often used to represent?
- People
- The self ✓
- Emotions ✓
- Places
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- Which of these statements best summarises the palace at the start of the poem 'The Haunted Palace'?
- A beautiful place full of grandeur and music. ✓
- A strange place full of lost souls.
- A frightening place where a king rules.
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- Which word is missing from this quotation from 'The Haunted Palace': "_______yellow, golden, glorious"?
- Seraphs
- Banners ✓
- Palaces
- Echoes
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- Which word completes the following quotation from Poe's 'The Haunted Palace': "Evil things in robes of _______"?
- Mourning
- Melody
- Sorrow ✓
- Angels
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Worksheet
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- The poem is about a palace that was once beautiful and majestic but is now ruined and full of sorrow.
- The poem is a metaphor for the physical effects of depression on the human mind.
- The poem links to the Gothic through its setting and its portrayal of a decaying and haunted house.
Common misconception
Students may find the idea of house as a metaphor for the self challenging.
Draw their attention to their own ideas around houses.
Keywords
Radiant - radiant means full of light.
Dominion - dominion means you have control over something.
Glorious - glorious means wonderful and splendid.
Assail - to assail means to attack.
Discordant - discordant means harsh and out of tune.
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