1. The Raven
By Edgar Allan Poe

2. Vocabulary Academic Definition Human Definition
Alliteration - the repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words. Alliteration is marked in blue.
Assonance - the repetition of vowel sounds, usually within words. Assonance is marked in yellow
Personification: the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Foreshadowing-literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
Alliteration- all first letters/sounds the same.
Assonance – middle sounds same
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.”
Foreshadowing – think “Jaws” music right before someone loses a leg.

3. Vocabulary Academic Definition Human Definition
Slant rhyme: rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical,
Repetition: the action of repeating something that has already been said or written. Repetition will be marked in green/ circled.
Rhyme Scheme: the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.



Stanza: poetry paragraph. Stanzas will be numbered.
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.
Slant Rhyme: half rhyme eyes/light; years/yours
Repetition: repeating words, phrases or actions (think chorus in music)
Internal rhyme – Rhyme inside a line

4. The Raven Audio

5. The Raven - links The Raven Interactive:
Christopher Walken audio recording
James Earl Jones audio recording

6. Assignments Edgar Allen Poe Biography