Question 1 Part A

What inference can be made about the speaker in "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe?

He murdered Lenore.

He finds comfort in the bird.

He is a highly educated man.

He is a clergyman.
Question 2
Part B

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

"'Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!'”

"But the Raven, sitting lonely on that placid bust, spoke only
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour."

"This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining"

"On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o’er"