Reading "The Raven" Vocabulary

Question 1

Lore

Answer 1

Old stories

Question 2

Vainly

Answer 2

without success

Question 3

surcease

Answer 3

ending

Question 4

entreating

Answer 4

begging

Question 5

implore

Answer 5

ask

Question 6

scarce

Answer 6

hardly

Question 7

peering

Answer 7

staring

Question 8

countenance

Answer 8

mental composer

Question 9

placid

Answer 9

undisturbed

Question 10

melancholy

Answer 10

sorrow

Question 11

gaunt

Answer 11

sickly

Question 12

tempest

Answer 12

storm

Question 13

pallid

Answer 13

pale

Question 14

pallas

Answer 14

Athena

Question 15

plutonian

Answer 15

black

Question 16

Seraphim

Answer 16

Angel

Question 17

tempter

Answer 17

Satan

Question 18

balm in Gilead

Answer 18

power to heal

Question 19

Aidenn

Answer 19

Heaven

Question 20

Mood

Answer 20

The atmosphere or feeling within a work of art.

Question 21

Rhyme

Answer 21

same ending sounds

Question 22

Rhyme scheme

Answer 22

pattern of rhyming sounds

Question 23

end rhyme

Answer 23

rhyme that appears at the ends of poetic lines

Question 24

internal rhyme

Answer 24

when words in the middle of a line rhyme with words at the end of the line or with other words in nearby lines

Question 25

exact rhyme

Answer 25

exact same ending sounds

Question 26

slant rhyme

Answer 26

ending sounds that are similar

Question 27

rhythm

Answer 27

a sound pattern that helps to give poetry a musical or melodious quality

Question 28

meter

Answer 28

sound pattern of repeated stressed and unstressed syllables called beats

Question 29

foot

Answer 29

a 2 syllable block

Question 30

octameter

Answer 30

A line that is 8 feet in length

Question 31

rising meter

Answer 31

unstressed beats followed by stressed beats

Question 32

falling meter

Answer 32

stressed beats followed by unstressed beats

Question 33

iambic

Answer 33

a word with 2 syllable first one being unstressed second being stressed

Question 34

trochaic

Answer 34

a word that is 2 syllables starting with a stressed beat ending with a unstressed beat

Question 35

cansonance

Answer 35

repeated consonant sounds anywhere in a word

Question 36

alliteration

Answer 36

a type of consonance in which beginning sounds are the same or similar

Question 37

stanzas

Answer 37

18

Question 38

lines

Answer 38

108