Read the passage.

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."

In this excerpt from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, what is the speaker doing when he hears a knock at the door?

A. Reading

B. Pacing

C. Weeping

D. Sleeping

Question

Bruno Henry

English

1 August, 05:31

Read the passage.

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."

In this excerpt from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, what is the speaker doing when he hears a knock at the door?

A. Reading

B. Pacing

C. Weeping

D. Sleeping

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Bradley Novak · Answer 1

Bradley Novak 1 August, 05:38

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Pi would say pacing maybe?

Penelope Warren · Answer 2

In the excerpt from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, the speaker is doing the following when he hears a knock at the door:

A. Reading.

The passage " ... while I pondered, weak and weary / Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore ... " shows it. The speaker stated he was "pondering", that is, giving deep consideration, to "a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore", that is, to an old-fashioned and interesting book on some ancient knowledge.