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Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven," was written in the
early 1800's. Naturally, the language used in the poem is not the same as the language
we use on a daily basis.

When you are not familiar with a
word's meaning, try to use context clues to figure it out; look at the words around the
unknown term to decipher what meaning might make sense.  In the case of a multiple
choice item, try to substitute each possible term for the word in question; if a choice
does not make sense, eliminate it.

The word "token," which
appears in line 27, is not used in the context in which we usually see
it.

Deep into
that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering,
fearing,

Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to
dream before;

But the silence was unbroken, and the
darkness gave no token...

In
this case, Poe uses the word "token" to mean a sign.

As the
narrator sits reading and mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, there is a tapping
at his door.  When he opens the door, there is no one there and there is no sign
(token) of who it might have been.