7. The bolded words are "dreary", and "weary".

Read the following passage from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” Which sound device is expressed by the bolded words?

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,
weak and weary …

A. alliteration

B. rhythm

C. refrain

D. rhyme

D. Rhyme

Explanation:

Since the bolded words are dreary and weary it seems like the best fit.  

D. rhyme

Explanation:

Rhyme

As you know, words that rhyme end with a similar sound. Rhyme and time, beat and heat, and friends and trends are all examples of rhyming words.

“Mary Had a Little Lamb” has only two rhyming words. Both come at the end of a line of verse.

As in rap lyrics, the use of rhyming in lyric poetry can be very elaborate. As you will see in “The Raven,” rhyming words can come at the end of lines of verse (end rhyme), or they can be located within one or more lines of verse (internal rhyme).

This time as you read “The Raven,” pay particular attention to the rhyming words. How many sets of rhymes does Poe use? Where are the rhymes within the poem?

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping—rapping at my chamber door.

"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door—

Only this and nothing more."

Look at the words in bold. Did you find all three rhyming sets?

“dreary” and “weary”

“lore,” “door,” and “more”

“napping,” “tapping,” and “rapping”

Remember: rhyming can occur at the end of lines, such as with the rhyming set “lore, door, more.” They can also be internal rhymes that occur within the sentence structure, such as “dreary” and “weary,” and “napping,” “tapping,” and “rapping.”

Rhyming is another sound device that gives lyric poetry its musical quality.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping—rapping at my chamber door.

"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door—

Only this and nothing more."

thats harsh

explanation: