The Raven Figurative Language

“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

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

• 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

“From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow…”

• assonance

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

• hyperbole

“While I nodded, nearly napping”

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

"and an echo murmured back"

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• allusion

• hyperbole

"as if his soul in that one word he did outpour"

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• allusion

• hyperbole