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Group 3 - Ocho sinco

By Chandler, Becca, and Marin

How we're doing it: (stanza #) original line from poem with vocabulary word bolded translation using our own words definition/synonyms of vocab word picture!

(1) Once upon a midnight **dreary**, while I pondered, weak and weary, Once upon a gloomy night, while I thought, weak and exhausted, __**dreary**__ - adj. - a sad, cheerless or listless feeling.

(2) Over many a **quaint** and curious volume of forgotten lore - Over a lot of old and interesting pile of forgotten knowledge (symbolic for the idea that he and others who have lived there have forgotten memories/possibly old souls?) -
 * __quaint__** - odd, singular, old-fashioned

(2) Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten **lore** - Over a lot of old and interesting pile of forgotten knowledge (symbolic for the idea that he and others who have lived there have forgotten memories/possibly old souls?) - __**lore**__ - traditional knowledge



(7) Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the **bleak** December, Ah, I specifically remember that it was in the grim December,
 * __bleak__** - depressing, cold, barren



(9, 59) Eagerly I wished the **morrow**; - vainly I had sought to borrow Fervantly I wanted tomorrow to come; I vainly had sought out to borrow
 * __morrow__** - a shortened way to say tomorrow

(10) From my books **surcease** of sorrow- sorrow for the lost Lenore From all my sad books about the lost Lenore
 * __Surcrease__**- a pause or delay

(16) "Tis some visiter **entreating** entrance at my chamber door." Someone is begging to go into his room.
 * __Entreating__**- verb. begging or pleading for someone to do something

(23) That I **scarce** was sure I heard you"-- here I opened wide the door;-- I barely was sure that I heard you"-- Than I opened the door. this scarcely found yeti!
 * __Scarce-__** Insufficient to meet the demand; not common, rarely found

(33) "Surely." said I, "surely that is something at my window **lattice**." There has to be something at my window making that sound! __**Lattice**__**-** n, a criss-cross pattern; decarative framework on a window usually

(38, 70, 71) In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of **yore**, There was a raven from the saintly days of long ago
 * __Yore__**- referes to a time in and of the past, usually a long time ago.

(37) Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a **flirt** and flutter I opened the shutters of the window, when, with much movement and flapping __**Flirt-**__ verb. Sudden jerks and movement or to toy with.

(38) In there stepped a **stately** Raven of the saintly days of yore. There was a raven from the saintly days of long ago.
 * __Stately__**- adj. Great, lofty, imposing look.