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

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the trickster
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a universal fiigure in the myths and folk tales of many cultures that uses cunning to get the better of others
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universal archetypal figure
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dilemma tale
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moral tales intended for listeners to discuss and debate
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chain tale
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a formulaic story in which every incident that came before is repeated as each new incident is added
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etiological tale
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refrain
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lines that are repeated at the end of each stanza
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reverential
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calabash
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hollowed-out gourd used as a bowl
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proverb
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a conscise saying that expresses a common human truth or experience
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alliteration
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the repetition of a constant sound
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parallelism
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the repetition of certain words and phrases in a similar structure or order
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interactive
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assonance
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primary epic
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literary epic
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protagonist
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heroic main character
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antagonist
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the evil character
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omniscient point of view
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story told from the point of the storyteller
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nemesis
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affront
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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.)tearing down completely
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gnougous
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root vegatables
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baobab
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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 griot, repeated the hunter's prophecy at the Sundiata's ceremonial naming
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"the wild yam of the rocks"
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When the vines of the yams grow in boulder-stern 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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storyteller
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sofas
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(n.)warriors
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"an gnewa"
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forward
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rout
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(n.)defeat
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tam-tams
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(n.)small drums
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quarter
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(n.)mercy
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fetishes
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(n.)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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two events occured at different times in the past, use different tenses to show which event happened first
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