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LITERATURE

● Folklore - traditionally derived and orally transmitted litera

● Folktales - reflect the people's beliefs handed down from
word of mouth
● Epilogue - conclusion or final part of non-dramatic literary
● Genre - distinctive type of literary composition such as ep
● "Quo Vadis" - means "where are you going"
● hieroglyphics - oldest forn of egyptian writing
● Allegory - narrative whose meaning is beneath the surfac
● Elegy - a meditated poem of grief
● Sonnet - verse w/14 iambic pentameter lines
● Epic - long poem w/c depicts the adventure of a great he
aspirations; narrates heroic deeds and supernatural happen
sing/chant
● Soliloquy - speech made by a person who reveals his tho
● Manuel Arcilla - "How my brother Leon brought home a w
● Washington Irving - "The Legend of a Sleepy Hollow"
● Fall of the house of usher - hypochondriac living in morbi
● Cyrano de Bergerac - poet & soldier noted for his Peculia
● "The Illiad of Homer" - great epic poem whose plot cente
Achilles against agamemnon
● "The Bells" - "If eyes are made for seeing, then beauty is
● Cacophony - literary term w/c means harsh & discordant
effect
● George Bernard Shaw - know for his excellence of charac
narrative & clarity of style.
● Edgar Allan Poe - greatest American writer of horror and
● Rabindranath Tagore - best known for his collection of po
offerings
● Robert Frost - ranked as one of the best modern America
● Geoffrey Chaucer - Morning Star of English Literature
● Mark Twain - "Samuel Clemens"
● Harriet Stowe - "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
● Charles Darwin - Origin of species
● Lazlo Biro - invented the ball point pen

● Harry Potter - epic kind of story

VOCABULARY

Emulate imitate
Vouchsafe grant
Abeyance suspended
Denigrate malign
Furtive sneaky
Remonstrate protest
Corroborate confirm
Gullible easily deceived
Germane relevant
Plebeian common
Vulpine cunning
Spendthrift spender
Impolitic unwise
Terse concise
Parsimonious stingy
Stupefy make numb
Pariah outcast
Wizened shrivelled
Dubious doubtful
Incriminates accuse
Frivolous worthless
Susceptible inclined
Impertinent irrelevant
Ostracized excluded
Conglomeration diffusion
Cacophonous loud and unpleasant
Carnal worldly
Aplomb composure
Candor honesty
Contemptuous scornful
Feeble weak
Inevitable certain