Question

From “The Raven” by Edgar Allen 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. (Highlighted words are dreary, napping and gently.) Which highlighted word in the passage from “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe is an adverb?

Answer 1

Gently because it describes the degree at which someone is tapping on the window sill, and that's what adverbs do, they describe a a verb by many different factors.