Students – below you will find the vocabulary lists for class, divided up by week. Rememeber, you will have a quiz each Friday!

Week One:

• Oral Tradition
• Cultural Values
• Themes
• Cultural Experiences
• Universal Theme
• Point of View (1st, 2nd, and 3rd)
• Myths
• Folktales
• Legends
• Epics
• Characters
• Settings
• Plot
• Conflict
• Archetypes
• Diction
• Protagonist
• Antagonist

Week Two:

• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor
• Extended Metaphor
• Allusion
• Tone
• Mood
• Symbolism
• Parallelism
• Repetition
• Rhyme
• Connotation
• Denotation
• Irony
• Personification
• Rhyme Scheme
• Stanza
• Enjambment
• Imagery
• Kennings
• Diction
• Anaphora

Week 3

• Apartheid
• Philosophical Assumptions
• Disreputable
• Amenable
• Edifice
• Dialect
• Destitute
• Inaudibly
• Dissent
• Commiserate
• Lamentations
• Indifferent
• Pigments
• Lassitude
• Indelible
• Inexplicable

Week 4

• (See posts on African Epic, Short Story and Memoirs for groups’ individual vocabulary lists)

Week 5

• Nationalism
• Filial Piety
• Deliberately
• Prefectures
• Associations (verb)
• Subsequent
• Diction
• Shrine
• Concessionaires
• Plausible
• Cohorts
• Vagrants
• Corpses
• Betrothals
• Inaugurate
• Counterfeit

Week 10

• impede
• stupor
• ragpicker
• grandeur
• magnanimous
• frivolous
• conjecture
• catechism
• impertinence
• antiquarian
• terrestrial
• ingenuous
• pontiff
• befuddled
• virtue
• proliferate