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Literature Class Key Terms 1st Partial


Oral Tradition:  is cultural material and traditions transmitted orally from one generation to another. The messages or testimony are verbally transmittedin speech or song and may take the form.  In this way, it is possible for a society to transmit oral history, oral literature, oral law and other knowledge’s across generations without a writingsystem.
Monotheistic: is the belief in the existence of one god
Polytheistic: is the belief of multiple deities also usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and goddesses, along with theirown mythologies and rituals
Creation story: Bible begins 
Sacred text: the bibleEpic:a brave and noble character in an epic poem, admired for greatachievements or affected by grand events: Beowulf, an epic herowith extraordinary strength.

Epithet:  "attributed, added"[) or byname is a descriptive term (word or phrase) accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage.
Invocation:  is aboutreligious and spiritual invocation
Muse: what inspire you to write.
Narrator: the person that is telling the story
Protagonist: the main character
Tragedy: is a form of art based on humansuffering that offers its audience pleasure
Prologue: is an opening to a story that establishes the setting and gives background details, often some earlier story that tie into the main one, and othermiscellaneous information.
Chorus: is a homogenous, non-individualized group of performers in the plays of classical Greece, who comment with a collective voice on the dramatic action.
Tragic hero: is themain character (or "protagonist") in a tragedy
Courtly love:  was a medieval European conception of nobly and chivalrously expressing love and admiration. Generally, courtly love was secret and betweenmembers of the nobility. It was also generally not practiced between husband and wife
Fate: refers to a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined...