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| god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphic animal who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys normal rules. |
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| universal archetypal figure |
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| dilemma tale or enigma tale |
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| a form of moral tale that ends with a question, inviting the audience to share their judgments. |
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| chain tale or cumulative tale |
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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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| a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza; chorus. |
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| resulting from or showing reverence. |
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| any of various gourds, especially the bottle gourd. |
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| a short popular saying, usually of unknown and ancient origin, that expresses effectively some commonplace truth or useful thought; adage; saw. |
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| the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter. |
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| the repetition of a syntactic construction in successive sentences for rhetorical effect. |
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| acting one upon or with the other. |
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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 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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| the omniscient narrator does not take part in the action yet knows everything that is happening. |
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| something that a person cannot conquer, achieve, etc. |
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| a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect; intentional slight; insult |
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| to wipe out; do away with; expunge. |
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| beginning to exist or develop. |
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| to arrange in a position of readiness, or to move strategically or appropriately. |
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| strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable. |
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| to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat. |
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| to tear down; demolish; level to the ground. |
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| any large tree belonging to the genus Adansonia has an exceedingly thick trunk, and bears a gourd like fruit. |
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| Islam the Muslim name for God; the one Supreme Being. |
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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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| 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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| sofas (not the couch kind) |
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| a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder. |
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| one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided. |
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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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| two events occured at different times in the past, use different tenses to show which event happened first. |
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