Reading "The Raven" Vocabulary Flashcards
(38 cards)
1
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Lore
A
Old stories
2
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Vainly
A
without success
3
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surcease
A
ending
4
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entreating
A
begging
5
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implore
A
ask
6
Q
scarce
A
hardly
7
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peering
A
staring
8
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countenance
A
mental composer
9
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placid
A
undisturbed
10
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melancholy
A
sorrow
11
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gaunt
A
sickly
12
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tempest
A
storm
13
Q
pallid
A
pale
14
Q
pallas
A
Athena
15
Q
plutonian
A
black
16
Q
Seraphim
A
Angel
17
Q
tempter
A
Satan
18
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balm in Gilead
A
power to heal
19
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Aidenn
A
Heaven
20
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Mood
A
The atmosphere or feeling within a work of art.
21
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Rhyme
A
same ending sounds
22
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Rhyme scheme
A
pattern of rhyming sounds
23
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end rhyme
A
rhyme that appears at the ends of poetic lines
24
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internal rhyme
A
when words in the middle of a line rhyme with words at the end of the line or with other words in nearby lines
25
exact rhyme
exact same ending sounds
26
slant rhyme
ending sounds that are similar
27
rhythm
a sound pattern that helps to give poetry a musical or melodious quality
28
meter
sound pattern of repeated stressed and unstressed syllables called beats
29
foot
a 2 syllable block
30
octameter
A line that is 8 feet in length
31
rising meter
unstressed beats followed by stressed beats
32
falling meter
stressed beats followed by unstressed beats
33
iambic
a word with 2 syllable first one being unstressed second being stressed
34
trochaic
a word that is 2 syllables starting with a stressed beat ending with a unstressed beat
35
cansonance
repeated consonant sounds anywhere in a word
36
alliteration
a type of consonance in which beginning sounds are the same or similar
37
stanzas
18
38
lines
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