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The Raven

The Raven. Poe focused on the fantastic and the gothic Escaped reality Explored dark fantasies and impulses Poe often deals with madness The Raven is about lost love. It also explores how grief and loneliness can turn to madness. Terminology.

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The Raven

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  1. The Raven • Poe focused on the fantastic and the gothic • Escaped reality • Explored dark fantasies and impulses • Poe often deals with madness • The Raven is about lost love. • It also explores how grief and loneliness can turn to madness.

  2. Terminology • 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 purple. • 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.

  3. http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/raven/index.htmlhttp://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/raven/index.html • http://legacy.teachersfirst.com/share/raven/st1.html

  4. Group task Choose a color for: • Alliteration • Assonance • Internal Rhyme • Create a key • Color code ALL examples in your stanzas • Choose 5 words (unfamiliar or important) to look up in a dictionary. Write the definitions

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