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Answer» wseNotessearchSearch for any book or any questionThe Raven by Edgar Allan PoeThe Raven book coverMENUWhat are the literary devices in stanzas nine and ten of "The Raven"?print Print document PDF list CiteExpert Answers infoJAY GILBERT, PH.D. eNotes educator | CERTIFIED EDUCATORThere are numerous literary devices we can identify in these two stanzas of the poem. First, we can identify the use of alliteration in several places—"much I MARVELLED," "FEATHER . . . fluttered," "bird or beast" and so on. What is particularly interesting is that Poe often combines his alliteration with INSTANCES of internal rhyme, where a word in the middle of a LINE rhymes with the word at the end of it—for example, "agreeing . . . being" and "uttered . . . fluttered." This draws the reader's attention to these LINES. |
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