Which best describes the scene that the author is setting through the use of imagery in the stanza?

AThe speaker is up late at night reading and hears a knocking sound.
BThe speaker is sleeping and is awakened by someone calling to him.

C.The speaker is reading a ghost story and imagines that he sees a ghost.

D.The speaker is napping and does not hear a visitor who taps on the door.

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greentionna1 greentionna1 · Answer 1 · 2018-01-16T15:03:36-05:00

Its A the speaker is up late at night reading and hears a knocking sound.

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magfulltime magfulltime · Answer 2 · 2019-02-26T11:20:45-05:00

Answer:

A. The speaker is up late at night reading and hears a knocking sound.

Explanation:

The Scene the question refers to is from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe:

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 someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

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

Only this and nothing more."