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Ancient African Literature MIR 4
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10th Grade
03/21/2011

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the trickster
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a universal figure in myths and folk tales of many cultures who uses cunning to get the better of others who are usually bigger and stronger than he or she.
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universal archetypal figure
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a trickster
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dilemma tale or enigma tale
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A type of moral tale, from the oral tradition, that does not have a resolution but instead ends with a question posed to the audience.
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chain tale or cumulative tale
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A type of folk tale that contains minimal plot, much repetition and rhythm, and a pattern that ties the tale together.
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etiological tale
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a tale concerning origins
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refrain
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A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines.
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reverential
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of the nature of or characterized by respect
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calabash
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n. here, the hollowed-out shell of a gourd.
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proverb
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A short saying that expresses a common truth or experience, usually abot human failings and the ways that people interact with one another.
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alliteration
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The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are closed to one another.
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parallelism
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The repetiton of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure or that compare and contrast.
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interactive
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of or pertaining to a two-way system of electronic communications, as by means of television or computer
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assonance
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The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together.
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primary epic or oral epic
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ancient epics before being translated into forgein languages
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literary epic
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a long narrative poem in a dignified style about the deeds of a traditional or historical hero or heroes
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protagonist
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The main character in a work of fiction, drama, or narrative poetry.
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antagonist
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The character or force that opposes or blocks the protagonist, or main character, in a narrative.
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omniscient point of view
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the narrator does not take part in the action yet knows everything that is happening.
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nemesis
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something that a person cannot conquer, achieve, etc
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affront
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n.intentional insult
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efface
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v. erase
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nascent
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adj.starting to grow
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deployed
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v. stationed military troops
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impregnable
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adj. incapable of being captured
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implored
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v. begged earnestly for.
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razing
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v. used as.
n. tearing down completely
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gnougous
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n.pl.: root vegetables
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baobab
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n. tropical tree whose leaves are used as a cooking herb.
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Allah
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Arabic name for God.
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"the words of Doua on the name-giving day"
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Doua, king Maghan's griots, had repeated the hunter's prophecy at the infant Sundiata's ceremonial naming.
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"the wild yam of the rocks
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When the vines of these yams start to grow in boulder-stewn areas, their underground tubers anchor them among the rocks and make them very difficult to uproot.
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griot
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n.a member of a caste responsible for maintaining an oral record of tribal history in the form of music, poetry, and storytelling
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sofas (not the couch kind
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n.pl.: warriors.
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"an gnewa
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foward
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rout
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n. defeat
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tam-tams
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n.pl.:small drums
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quarter
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n. mercy
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fetishes
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n.pl.: objects believed to have magical powers.
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bourein
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n. dwarf shrub
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literary present
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when you use present tense when writing about what happens ina work of literatute.
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