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| to abstain from an impulse to say or do something |
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| resulting from or showing reverence: a pilgrimage is a reverential act, performed by reverent people |
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Also called: calabash tree a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae
another name for the bottle gourd |
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| a short, memorable, and often highly condensed saying embodying, esp with bold imagery, some commonplace fact or experience |
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| the use of the same consonant ( consonantal alliteration ) or of a vowel, not necessarily the same vowel ( vocalic alliteration ), at the beginning of each word or each stressed syllable in a line of verse, as in around the rock the ragged rascal ran |
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the state of being parallel
grammar the repetition of a syntactic construction in successive sentences for rhetorical effect |
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| allowing or relating to continuous two-way transfer of information between a user and the central point of a communication system, such as a computer or television |
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| the use of the same vowel sound with different consonants or the same consonant with different vowels in successive words or stressed syllables, as in a line of verse. Examples are time and light or mystery and mastery |
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| a universal or archetypal figure in the myths and folk tales of many cultures |
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| epic that is spoken aloud |
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| the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work. |
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| a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary |
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| something that a person cannot conquer, achieve, etc.: The performance test proved to be my nemesis. |
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| a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect; intentional slight; insult: an affront to the king. |
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| to wipe out; do away with; expunge: to efface one's unhappy memories. |
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| beginning to exist or develop: the nascent republic. |
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Military . to spread out (troops) so as to form an extended front or line.
,to arrange in a position of readiness, or to move strategically or appropriately: to deploy a battery of new missiles. |
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| strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable: an impregnable fort. |
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| to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: They implored him to go. |
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| to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings. |
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| any large tree belonging to the genus Adansonia, of the bombax family, especially A. digitata, which is native to tropical Africa, has an exceedingly thick trunk, and bears a gourdlike fruit. |
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| Islam the Muslim name for God; the one Supreme Being |
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| a member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africa whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or village and to entertain with stories, poems, songs, dances, etc. |
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| a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder: to put an army to rout; to put reason to rout |
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| a gong with indefinite pitch. |
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| an object regarded with awe as being the embodiment or habitation of a potent spirit or as having magical potency. |
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| one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided: a quarter of an apple; a quarter of a book |
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| a tale that is linked together with others |
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| universal archetypal figure |
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| dilemma tale or enigma tale |
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| a genre of mystery novels. |
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| god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphic animal who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys normal rules |
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| a formulaic story in whic every incident that came before is repeated as each new incident is added. |
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| A tale concerning origins. |
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| primary epic or oral epic |
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| original epics before they are translated into foreign languages |
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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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| the omniscient narrator does not take part in the action yet knows everything that is happening. |
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| "The words of Doua on the name-giving day" |
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| Doua, King Maghan's griot, 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 theses yams grow in boulder-strewn areas, their underground tubers anchor them among the rocks and made them very difficult to uproot. |
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