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(AAL) SSN&BTB4 Part1
VL4
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English
10th Grade
03/21/2011

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The Trickster
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-noun
is a god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphic animal who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys normal rules.
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Universal Archetypal Figure
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Dilemma (enigma) Tale
Definition
typically African form of short story whose ending is either open to conjecture or is morally ambiguous
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Chain(cumulative)Tale
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is a variation on the repetitive tale.
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Etiological Tale
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is a fictional narrative that explains why something is the way it is.
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Refrain
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–verb
to abstain from an impulse to say or do something.
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Reverential
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— adj
resulting from or showing reverence.
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Calabash
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–noun any of various gourds, especially the bottle gourd.
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Proverb
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–noun
a short popular saying, usually of unknown and ancient origin, that expresses effectively some commonplace truth or useful thought; adage; saw
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Alliteration
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–noun
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
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–noun
agreement in direction, tendency, or character
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Interactive
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–adj
acting one upon or with the other
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Assonance
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–noun
resemblance of sounds.
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Primary(Oral) epic
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poetry that is often carried over to the written form.
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Literary epic
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-noun
in which such characteristics are applied to later or different materials
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Protagonist
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–noun
the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
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Antagonist
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–noun
a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary.
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Omniscient point of view
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it means that the teller is all-knowing.
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Nemesis
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-noun
something that a person cannot conquer, achieve.
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Affront
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–noun
a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect; intentional slight; insult
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