Homework from last Monday, which is due TODAY!
On Friday February 5 you will have a quiz on the poetic elements we are reviewing in class.
This will include: similes, metaphors, hyperbole, personification, synechdoches, alliteration, consonance, assonance, onomatopoeia and internal and end rhyme. You should also be able to write out a rhyme scheme.
Write out 5 examples each of alliteration, assonance and internal rhyme from Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven (this was assigned last week!)
vocabulary for The Raven- quiz Friday February 5
English I vocabulary from The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
1. to ponder (verb) – to mull over or contemplate
2. to entreat (verb)- to seek
3. to implore (verb)- to ask for
4. lattice (noun)- framing window panes
5. obeisance (noun)- bowing as a sign of reverence
6. mien (noun)- manner or attitude
7. ebony (adjective)- dark colored
8. craven (adjective)- coward
9. beguiling (adjective)- charming, bewitching
10. discourse (noun)- conversation
11. placid (noun)- calm
12. dirge (noun)- funeral song
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