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What we’ll be reading
Folk Tales from The One Thousand and One Nights: The Fisherman and the Jinnee (pg 84) from The Rubaiyat(pg 100) from The Gulistan (pg 106) Elephant in the Dark (pg 119) Two Kinds of Intelligence (pg 121) The Guest House (pg 122) Which is Worth More? (pg 124) African Proverbs: from Sundiata (pg 129)
Vocabulary
The Thousand and One Nights
Adj: inverted
Adj: blasphemous Showing disrespect toward God or religious teachings
V: adjured
Adv: indignantly
adv.: resolutely
Adj: enraptured Completely delighted; spellbound
N: munificence
Adj: ominous Hinting at bad things to come
N: repentance
N: pomp Ceremonial splendor, magnificence
N: myriads Great numbers of persons or things
N: piety Devotion to religious duties or practices
Adj: beneficent
N: extortions
Elephant in the Dark, Two Kinds of Intelligence, The Guest House, Which is Worth More?
N: competence
N: conduits
N: malice
N: solitude
Sundiata
V: fathom Probe the depths of; understand
Adj: taciturn
Adj: malicious
N: infirmity
N: innudendo
Adj: diabolical
Adj: estranged Isolated and unfriendly; alienated
Literary Elements
Folk Tales Part of the oral tradition, the body of stories, poems, and songs that are passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation.
Characteristics of Folk Tales Lesson about life Magical or supernatural elements Characters who possess one or two main traits A clear separation between good and evil Folk tales may share plot patterns and deceptively ordinary characters.
Narrative Structure The way in which a work of fiction is organized. The Fisherman and the Jinnee contains framed stories or stories within a story. Create the following chart:
Didactic Literature Teaches lessons on ethics, or principles regarding right and wrong conduct, and if often reflects the values or the society that produces it.
Didactic literature uses these tools: Aphorisms: short, pointed statements expressing truths about human existence Personification: a technique that gives human qualities to non-human things Metaphor: a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else
Types of Metaphors All Metaphors: compare two apparently unlike things without using the words like or as Direct Metaphor: connects the two terms directly Indirect Metaphor: suggests the comparison
Direct Metaphor: Example This being human is a guest house.
Indirect Metaphor: Example
Analogy An explanation of how two things are similar Usually extended comparisons that explain something unfamiliar by showing how it is like something familiar Frequently use figurative speech
Epic Conflict A narrative or narrative poem that focuses on the deeds of heroes.
Characteristics Menacing enemies Natural dangers Moral dilemmas Problems with society Difficulties with fate Challenging decisions
The Fisherman and the Jinnee Turn to page 85 Go to your notes page with your table (the one you copied earlier with narrative structure story within a story)
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