Figurative Language In Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven

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The loss of a loved one is strong enough to drive a person into insanity. In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven,” the narrator writes about his endless suffering from the death of Lenore, marked by a raven perched on the bust of Pallas. Poe leaves readers with goosebumps through the effective application of figurative language and diction. Namely, Poe’s use of meticulous word choice and repetition strengthen the dark atmosphere of “The Raven”. Carefully selected words bring life into the narrator’s pain. For instance, the narrator starts with “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary” (1). The first sentence already packs a punch with the words “dreary”, “weak”, and “weary”. Not only do two of the adjectives rhyme, creating

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