Figurative Language in "The Raven"

“And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming”

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

• imagery

“To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core”

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

“But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door”

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

“...the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.”

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

• hyperbole

“...suddenly there came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.”

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

• hyperbole

“And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain”

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

• hyperbole

“By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore”

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

“While I nodded, nearly napping”

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

“For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—”

• assonance

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

“Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!—”

• assonance

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration