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Vocabulary for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells"

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Vocabulary for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells"

Grade Levels

10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade

Course, Subject

English Language Arts
Related Academic Standards
L.F.2.4.1 L.F.2.4.1
Interpret and analyze works from a variety of genres for literary, historical, and/or cultural significance.
L.F.2.5.1 L.F.2.5.1
Identify, explain, interpret, describe, and/or analyze the effects of personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, satire, foreshadowing, flashback, imagery, allegory, symbolism, and irony in a text.
L.F.2.5.2 L.F.2.5.2

Identify, explain, and analyze the structure of poems and sound devices.
L.F.2.5.3 L.F.2.5.3
Identify and analyze how stage directions, monologue, dialogue, soliloquy, and dialect support dramatic script.
L.N.2.3.4 L.N.2.3.4

Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate theme in a variety of nonfiction:

  • the relationship between the theme and other components of the text
  • comparing and contrasting how major themes are developed across genres
  • the reflection of traditional and contemporary issues, themes, motifs, universal characters, and genres
  • the way in which a work of literature is related to the themes and issues of its historical period
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Description

Poem Vocabulary 

sledges: sleighs

crystalline:  crystal clear; icy

runic: using mysterious ancient symbolism

tintinnabulation: a Poe-created word to describe the ringing of bells 

ditty: a short rhyme or song

gloats: gazes with pride and satisfaction

sounding cells: small rooms, like those in the bell tower

euphony: a pleasant sound

voluminously: greatly; largely; loudly

rapture: delightful feeling

impels: pushes onward

alarum: alarm

brazen: rudely bold

turbulency: violent movement; confusion; disorder

affright: fear

clamorous: noisy

expostulation: a strong protest

resolute: determined

endeavor: determined effort

palpitating: throbbing

monody: a mournful sound; death song

melancholy: gloomy; sad

monotone: a dull sound that doesn't change

ghouls: horrible demons; evil graveyard spirits

paen: a song of praise or triumph

knells: rings slowly and loudly, to warn of a funeral or tragedy

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