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Read the first stanza from "The Raven."
Which best describes the scene that the author is
setting through the use of imagery in the stanza?
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."
The speaker is up late at night reading and hears a
knocking sound.
The speaker is sleeping and is awakened by
someone calling to him.
The speaker is reading a ghost story and imagines
that he sees a ghost.
The speaker is napping and does not hear a visitor
who taps on the door.
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Answer 1

The speaker is up late at night reading and hears a

knocking sound.

Step-by-step explanation:

This conveys that the speaker is reading:

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak

and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten

lore-"