"The Raven"
Vocabulary
PSSA Vocabulary
"Lamb to a Slaughter"
"The Raven"
Potpuorri
100
This means to deceive or "play" as in date more than one person at a time.
What is Beguile?
100
Mrs. Maloney's first name.
What is Mary?
100
This is opened to produce a dark hallway.
What is the chamber door?
100
This is the attitude that the author takes while he or she is writing the story.
What is tone?
200
This is another word for a bedroom
What is Chamber?
200
This is what the writing is mainly about.
What is main idea?
200
This is the drink that Mr. Maloney keeps tossing back.
What is Whiskey?
200
The Raven gets into the Chamber through this.
What is the window?
200
This means to hint at something
What is imply?
300
This means to beg.
What is entreat?
300
This is the process of creating and developing a character within a story.
What is Character?
300
These are the two vegetables that Mrs. Maloney gets at the market.
What are peas and idaho potatoes?
300
This is the word that The Raven will always and only say.
What is Nevermore?
300
This is a story that is passed down, usually orally, and has a moral or lesson at the end.
What is folktale?
400
If you are sad or depressed you might be considered this.
What is Melancholy?
400
This is term defining who is telling the story.
What is point of view?
400
This is what happened to the murder weapon in the story.
What is the cops ate it?
400
This is the name of the wife of the main character.
What is Lenore?
400
The following is the correct sequence... a. middle school, high school, graduate school, doctorate program b. middle school, junior high school, high school, college c. middle school, high school, college, graduate school d. junior high school, high school, post high school, college
What is C.
500
This is another way to say "the next day".
What is morrow?
500
This is the overall atmosphere of a story that the authors creates.
What is mood?
500
This was the murder weapon that Mrs. Maloney used.
What is a leg of lamb?
500
This is who touches the face of the main character in the poem.
What are spirits?
500
This is Mr. Kozel's first name.
What is "I'll never tell!"
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