Today, in celebration of Halloween, we will be reading a section of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem, "The Raven". Check out the vocabulary below to help you as you listen along. Read the full poem here: [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven]

Vocabulary:

stanza - n. a "paragraph" of a poem

dreary - adj. sad, bland, dull

to ponder - v. to think

weary - adj. tired

bleak - adj. cold, miserable

radiant - adj. beautiful, bright

maiden - n. young woman

to rustle - v. to make a sound from the movement of cloth, paper, or leaves

to entreat - v. to ask someone to do something

to implore - v. to beg, to request

scarcely - adv. barely, hardly

to peer - v. to look at with difficulty

mortal - n. a human, someone that can die

token - n. a sign or symbol

merely - adv. only or simply, just

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