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