Folklore

Kaitlin C.
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  1. tall tale
    an improbable (unusual or incredible or fanciful) story
  2. myth
    a traditional story serving to explain a world view
  3. parable
    a short moral story
  4. parody
    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
  5. preliterate
    not yet having acquired the ability to read and write
  6. genre
    a kind of literary or artistic work
  7. localization
    a determination of the place where something is
  8. vernacular
    the everyday speech of the people
  9. reinterpretation
    a new or different reading
  10. retention
    the act of keeping something
  11. motif
    a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
  12. formulaic
    in accordance with some established rule, style, or pattern
  13. esoteric
    understandable only by an enlightened inner circle
  14. exoteric
    suitable for the general public
  15. transmission
    communication by means of sent signals
  16. creole
    a mother tongue created by contact between two languages
  17. magic realism
    a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative or meticulously realistic painting are combined with surreal elements of fantasy or dreams
  18. world view
    a comprehensive view of the world and human life
  19. migration
    the movement of persons from one locality to another
  20. variant
    something a little different from others of the same type
  21. ritual
    the prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies
  22. mysticism
    a religion based on communion with an ultimate reality
  23. diffusion
    the act of dispersing something
  24. syncretism
    the union of different systems of thought or belief
  25. folk music
    the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
  26. culture
    all the knowledge and values shared by a society
  27. narrative
    an account that tells the particulars of an act or event
  28. epic
    a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
  29. folk dance
    a style of dancing that originated among ordinary people
  30. ballad
    a narrative poem of popular origin
  31. conundrum
    a difficult problem
  32. pragmatics
    the study of language use
  33. context
    the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation
  34. ostentation
    pretentious or showy or vulgar display
  35. proverb
    a condensed but memorable saying embodying an important fact
  36. folk song
    a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture
  37. diachronic
    used of the study of a phenomenon as it changes through time
  38. synchronic
    occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase
  39. artifact
    a man-made object
  40. ethnocentrism
    belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group
  41. performance
    the act of doing something successfully
  42. ethnography
    scientific description of individual human societies
  43. speech act
    the use of language to perform some act
  44. hero
    someone who fights for a cause
  45. moral
    concerned with principles of right and wrong
  46. superstition
    an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear
  47. taboo
    a ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion
  48. folk
    people in general (often used in the plural)
  49. diaspora
    the dispersion of something that was originally localized
  50. anecdote
    short account of an incident
  51. syntactic
    of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax
  52. coherence
    the state of sticking together
Created on Sun Feb 24 12:02:01 EST 2013 (updated Sat Mar 09 19:57:36 EST 2013)

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