THE RAVEN
By Edgar Allan Poe
VOCABULARY
Academic Definition
v Alliteration - the repetition of consonant sounds,
Human Definition
v Alliteration- all first letters/sounds
usually at the beginning of words. Alliteration is marked
the same.
in blue.
v Assonance – middle sounds same
v Assonance
- the repetition of vowel sounds,
usually within words. Assonance is marked in yellow
v Personification: the attribution of a personal nature
or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the
representation of an abstract quality in human form.
v Foreshadowing-literary device in which a writer
gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
v Personification – giving human
characteristics to something not real “the tree whishpered in the wind,” “the
ball scurriend into the basket
encouraged by the screaming fans.”
v Foreshadowing – think “Jaws” music
right before someone loses a leg.
VOCABULARY
Academic Definition
Human Definition
v Slant rhyme: rhyme in which either the vowels or
v Slant Rhyme: half rhyme
the consonants of stressed syllables are identical,
eyes/light; years/yours
v Repetition: the action of repeating something that
has already been said or written. Repetition will be
v Repetition: repeating words,
marked in green/ circled.
phrases or actions (think chorus
v Rhyme Scheme: the ordered pattern of rhymes at the
ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
in music)
v Stanza: poetry paragraph. Stanzas will be numbered.
v Internal rhyme - the rhyming of words within a line of
poetry, not just at the end of the lines. Internal rhymes are marked
in red.
v Internal rhyme – Rhyme inside
a line
THE RAVEN AUDIO
THE RAVEN - LINKS
v The Raven Interactive:
v http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/raven/st1.cfm
v Christopher Walken audio recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSq4FNuW6GY
v James Earl Jones audio recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcqPQXqQXzI
v
ASSIGNMENTS
v Edgar Allen Poe Biography
v http://www.biography.com/people/edgar-allan-poe9443160/videos/edgar-allan-poe-mini-biography-569923805
v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W70cinvFKko