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Which two phrases in this excerpt from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe help establish the setting? 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. "'T is some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door— Only this, and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow:—vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore— For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Nameless here for evermore.

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Answer: Midnight dreary, bleak december

Which two phrases in this excerpt from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe help-example-1
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The answers are "midnight dreary" and "Bleak December". I just took the test and got the question correct.

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