ALIT

• The largest African Great Lake is Lake Victoria
• Culture


  The shared pattern of behavior and interaction
• The first Black President of South Africa was Nelson Mandela
• Continent


  Any of the main large land areas of the earth
• There are over 3,000 distinct ethnic groups in Africa
• The longest river in the world is the Nile
• Harlem is located in the state of New York
• The event that created a transformation for African-Americans from the old to the new was the Civil Rights Movement
• The president who issued an Executive Order about Emancipation of the African Slaves was Abraham Lincoln
• The earliest record of literature written down in papyrus in 250 B.C. is “The Pyramid Texts”
• The sea with a surface and shores of 430.5 meters below sea level, the Earth’s lowest elevation on land, is the Dead Sea
• Continent bounded by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Indian Ocean to the south, and the Red Sea to the southwest

  Asia
• Mount Everest location

  In the Himalayas, on the border between Nepal and China (Tibet)
• The largest country in Africa is Algeria
• The most ancient language in the world is believed to be Sumerian
• The most populous country in Asia is China
• Dominant religion of Africa


  • Christianity
  • Islam
• The most populous country in Africa is Nigeria
• The Chinese writer who dealt with the good things of life with the pathos of human destiny, love, friendship, wine, nature, and simple village living in his writings is Lu Xun
• Fiction


  A literary work of imaginative narration, either oral or written
• Conflict


  The struggle or complication involving the characters, the opposition of persons or forces upon which the action depends in drama or fiction
• Authorial perspective

  Focusing on the perspective and background of the author
• The oldest collection of poetry that originated in Japan is the “Manyoshu”
• Psychoanalytic criticism


  An approach to literature that draws upon psychoanalytic theories
• Foil


  A character who points out the qualities or characteristics of another character
• Dynamic character


  A fully developed character that recognizes changes with or adjusts to circumstances, carrying with him the reality of human growth and decline
• The Japanese play known as the play of the masses is “Kabuki”
• Poetry

  Expression in metrical, rhythmical, and figurative language
• Meanings of the listed words

  • Spring up: To emerge or appear suddenly
  • Impetuous: Acting or done quickly and without thought or care; impulsive
  • Savannah: A flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions
  • Splendid: Magnificent; very impressive
  • Unbent: Not curved or bent; straight
  • Irrigates: To supply water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels
  • Ancestral: Relating to or inherited from ancestors
  • Whip: To beat with a whip as punishment or to urge on or drive with or as if with a whip