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Book Summary For The Raven

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  • Common Core alignment to "Reading: Literature and Subject-related Content" is to 3 key phrases: "Particular Topic", "Context" and "Reading Literature". CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades: Particular Topic: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 4.6. 5.6, 6.6, 7.6, 8.6, 9-10.6, 11-12.6 Context: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4a, 3.4a, 4.4a, 5.4a, 6.4a, 7.4a, 8.4a, 9-10.4a, 11-12.4a Reading: Literature: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RL.2.4, RL.3.4, RL.4.4. RL.5.4, RL.6.4, RL.7.4, RL.8.4, RL.9-10.4, RL.11-12.4 Reading: Informational Text: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RI.2.4, RI.3.4, RI.4.4. RI.5.4, RI.6.4, RI.7.4, RI.8.4, RI.9-10.4, RI.11-12.4
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This 62 word vocabulary list for The Raven is arranged alphabetically.

aptly, beguile, bleak, bosom, bust, censer, chamber, clasp, countenance, craven, decorum, desolate, dirges, discourse, dreary, ebony, ember, entreating, fiend, fiery, flit, flutter, gaunt, ghastly, Gilead, gloating, implore, laden, lattice, lore, melancholy, mien, morrow, mortal, nepenthe, nevermore, obeisance, ominous, Pallas, pallid, peering, placid, plume, Plutonian, ponder, quaff, quaint, relevancy, respite, seraph, stern, surcease, tempest, tempter, token, tufted, undaunted, ungainly, utter, vainly, wretch, wrought.


Thank you Jan Cook, a former teacher at Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton, California for being the teacher contributor at www.myVocabulary.com for a vocabulary word list for the poem, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.


Good links to other Poe content include:


  • Single Words First Used or Coined by Poe – 356 words

    Source: Burton R. Pollin, “List I, Single Words First Used or Coined by Poe,” Poe, Creator of Words, Baltimore: The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore, 1974.



    • Several of the many popular short stories:

    The Tell-Tale Heart

    The Fall of the House of Usher

    The Murders in the Rue Morgue

    The Raven – an Interactive Study Resource created by TeachersFIrst.com
    This is a wonderful reading of the entire The Rave” text.




    Composite list of words and phrases that may be puzzling – 588 entries