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| a universal figure in myths and folk tales of many cultures who uses cunning to get the better of others who are usually bigger and stronger than he or she. |
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| universal archetypal figure |
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| dilemma tale or enigma tale |
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| A type of moral tale, from the oral tradition, that does not have a resolution but instead ends with a question posed to the audience. |
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| chain tale or cumulative tale |
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| A type of folk tale that contains minimal plot, much repetition and rhythm, and a pattern that ties the tale together. A formulaic story in which every incident that came before is repeated as a new incident is added. |
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-A tale concerning origins
- explains how and why certain things can to be. |
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-A repeated word, phrase
-Lines that are repeated at the end of each stanza. |
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| (Noun)- the hollowed-out shell of a gourd. |
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| A concise saying that expresses a common human truth or experience. |
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| Repetiton of consonant sounds |
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| Reptetion of certain words and phrases in a similar stucture or order. |
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| Adj. - acting one upon or with the other. |
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| The repetiton of similar vowel sounds followed by differnt consonant sounds in words that are close together. |
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| primary epic or oral epic |
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| Ancient epics performed by generations of anonymous storytellers and changed slightly with each retelling. |
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| An epic created by individual writers, often from earlier model. |
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| Noun- The main character in a work of fiction, drama, or narrative poetry. |
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| Noun - The character or force that opposes or blocks the protagonist, or main character, in a narrative. |
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| When the narrator does not take part in the action yet knows everything that is happening. |
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| Noun - something that a person cannot conquer, achieve, etc. |
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| Noun - intentional insult |
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| Verb - stationed military troops |
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| Adj. - incapable of being captured |
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| Verb - tearing down completely |
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| Noun - tropical tree whose leaves aare used as a cooking herb. |
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| Noun - Arabic name for God. |
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| "the words of Doua on the name-giving day" |
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| Saying: 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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| a saying meaning: when the vines of these yams grow in boulder-strewn areas, their underground tubers anchor them among the rocks and make them very difficult to uproot. |
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| sofas (not the couch kind) |
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| saying that means: Forward |
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| Noun - objects believed to have magical |
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| The use of present tense when writing about what happens ina work of literature. |
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