The Raven / Edgar Allen Poe

Test Practice

Use Context Clues

With your partner, discuss how to answer these vocabulary questions.

1. Read these lines from the poem.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
What does the word pondered mean?
a. slept
b. yawned
c. thought
d. worried


What is the correct answer to the question above? How did the information you gathered while reading help you eliminate the incorrect answers?

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