Part A What can be inferred about the speaker in "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe?

A. The speaker believes the raven is not a real bird but a ghost.

B. The speaker begins to believe that the raven is cursed.

C. The speaker's guilt over his feelings for Lenore is personified in the raven.

D. The speaker thinks that Lenore is disguised as the raven.
Question 2
Part B

Which evidence from the text best supports the answer in Part A?

A. "'Prophet!' said I, 'thing of evil! —prophet still, if bird or devil!'"

B. "And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door"

C. "Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer"

D. "And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor"

Read this excerpt from "ain't i a woman? " by sojoumer truth in which three sentences does she make an emotional appeal to the audience by talking about her personal hardships? well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. {i think that 'twixt the negroes of the south and the women at the north, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.} but what's all this here talking about? {that man over there says that women need to be into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. nobody ever me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place} and ain't i a woman? look at me! look at my arm! {i have ploughed and planted, and gathered into bars, and no man could head me! } and ain't i a woman? i could work as much and eat as much as a man - when i could get it - and bear the lash as well! and ain't i a woman? {i have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when i cried out with my mother's grief, none but jesus heard me! } and ain't i a woman? {then they talk about this thing in the head, what's this they call it? [member of audience whispers, "intellect") that's it, honey.} what's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? if my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?

Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

What is the phrase a tiny shoot of phase prikled by the mind