Haley Terms A

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because Native Americans didn't have a written language, they passed down myths/songs/sories by telling & retelling them from gen to gen

Oral Literature

traditional stories that explain natural events through supernatural connections

Myth

animals that tribes believe they descended from

Totems

this spices up a myth by being a 2-sided character (sometimes they function as a rebel & also being creative/clever/wise)

Trickster

occurs when the same sound/word/phrase/line/grammatical structure appears more than once in a piece of writing

Repetition

a short reference to a character/place/situation from history from music/art/etc.

Allusion

1st person="I"; 3rd person="He/She"

Point of View

2 lines of consecutive rhymed poetry (creates an "envelope of thought")

Couplet

a statement that seems untrue but proves valid upon close inspection

Paradox

a person/place/thing that has meaning in itself and also stands for something other than itself

Symbol

when animals are given human qualities in such myths and children stories

Anthropomorphism

painting pictures with words that appeal to the senses and help to create emotional responses in the reader

Imagery