The Raven

Ponder

thought deeply about

Beguile

tricking, charming

Dreary

dull, bleak, and lifeless; depressing

Ember

 a small piece of burning or glowing coal or wood in a dying fire

Wrought

made or done in a careful or decorative way

Surcease

 to come to an end, to put an end to

Entreating

expressing an earnest or anxious request; pleading

Obeisance

 a gesture expressing respect, such as a bow or curtsy

Mien

 a person's look or manner, especially one of a particular kind indicating their character or mood

Decorum

 good taste in conduct/behavior or appearance

Countenance

 a person's face or facial expression.

Discourse

written or spoken communication or debate

Placid

calm and peaceful, with little movement or activity

Dirges

 a song or hymn of grief or lamentation

especially: one intended to accompany funeral or memorial rites

Melancholy

 sadness or depression of mind or spirit

Ominous

giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening

Respite

 rest; relief 

Quaff

drink (something, especially an alcoholic drink) heartily

Tempest

a violent windy storm

Desolate

 deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness

Alliteration

the repetition of initial consonant sounds

Allusion

reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

Hyperbole

a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement

internal rhyme

occurs when the rhyming words appear in the same line

Rhyme Scheme

a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem

Irony

a term that portrays differences between appearance and reality, or expectation and result

Metaphor

one thing is spoken of as though it were something else

Repition

the use of any element of language - a sound, word, phrase, clause, or a sentence more than once

Onomatopoeia

the use of words that imitate sounds

Simile

the words “like” or “as” are used to compare two apparently dissimilar items

symbolism

anything that stands for anything else

theme

central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work

personification

a nonhuman subject is given human charactersitics

Consonance

the repetition of consonant sounds within sentences or phrases

Dif between the three repeaters

It doesn’t matter where it is int he word or quantity unlike alliteration which the first letter is always repeated they can sometimes go hand in hand

Assonance

the repitition of vowel sounds across words within the lines of the poem creating internal rhymerepetition