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AAL- JRS Prd. 4
Vocab List 4
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English
10th Grade
03/28/2011

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The Trickster
Definition
A supernatural figure appearing in various guises and typically engaging in mischievous activities.
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Universal Archetypal Figure
Definition
A person who is the main figure of the tale.
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Dilemma Tale
Definition
A tale that ends with a question inviting the audience to share their judgments.
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Chain Tale
Definition
A tale in which every incident that came before is repeated as each new incident is added.
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Etiological Tale
Definition
A tale that explains how and why things happen.
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Refrain
Definition
To abstain from an impulse to say or do something.
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Reverential
Definition
Of the nature of or characterized.
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Calabash
Definition
A gourd that helps with music.
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Proverb
Definition
A short popular saying, usually of unknown and ancient origin.
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Alliteration
Definition
The commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group.
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Parallelism
Definition
The repetition of a syntactic construction on successive sentences for rhetorical effect.
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Interactive
Definition
To be involved.
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Assonance
Definition
Rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words.
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Primary Epic
Definition
A widely told tale.
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Literary Epic
Definition
An epic written by an individual author, based on an earlier model.
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Protagonist
Definition
The leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
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Antagonist
Definition
A person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with one another.
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Omniscient Point of View
Definition
Point of view outside of the story.
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Nemesis
Definition
An opponent.
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Affront
Definition
A personally offensive act or word.
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Efface
Definition
To wipe out.
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Nascent
Definition
Beginning to exist or develop.
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Deployed
Definition
To send out.
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Impregnable
Definition
Strong enough to resist.
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Implored
Definition
To beg urgently.
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