21ST (week 2 ver)

• Collate


  Collect and combine in proper order
• Dramatic Situation


  combination of setting, characters, and action in a poem or prose
• Fanlights


  Window over a door.
• Literary Boom


  Period of literary flourishing in the 1960s and 70s that brought much of the area's literature
• Quran


  Central religious test of Islam. Revelation from God
• Sparrow


  small finch like Old world related to the weaverbirds, typically with brown and gray plumage
• Sonnet


  One stanza, 14-line poem with iambic pentameter. "a little sound or song" Italian word
• White Pepper


  Condiment made from dried beans and berries instead of pepper plan
• Surah


  chapter
• Ayat


  Verse
• Al-Kawthar


  Shortest - 3
• Al-Baqara


  Longest - 286
• Europe


  One of the seven traditional continents of the world
• Seven Continents

  1. Asia
  2. Africa
  3. North America
  4. South America
  5. Antarctica
  6. Europe
  7. Australia
• European Literature


  Also known as Western Literature, and can also be defined as the literature written in the context of Western culture in the languages of Europe
• Homer


  Iliad and Odyssey
• Virgil

  Aeneid
• Dante


  Divine Comedy
• Chaucer

  Canterbury Tales
• Eavan Boland


  Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1944. One of the Ireland's preeminent contemporary poets and author of A Poet's Dublin and A Women Without a Country
• Contemporary Poetry


  Can be written about love. Considered poetry written within our lifetime, and includes poems written approximately from the mid-20th century up to now.
• Literary Devices


  Techniques a writer uses to produce a special effect in their writing
• Symbolism


  use of an object, figure, event, situation, or other idea in a written work to represent something else
• Hyperbole


  exaggerated statement that's no meant to be taken literally by the reader. Often used for comedic effect
• Imagery


  Where author describes a scene, thing, or idea so that it appeals to our senses (taste, smell, sight, touch or hearing).
• Metaphor


  Which ideas, actions, or objects are described in non-literal terms. When author compares one thing to another.
• Middle East


  Name given to the area of land between Red sea and the Gulf, from Israel in the west to Iran in the east
• Arabic Literature


  The body of written works produced in the Arabic language
• Elements of the story - Setting

  1. Place - geographical location
  2. Time - when is the story taking place
  3. Weather conditions - (rainy, sunny, stormy, etc)
  4. Mood or atmosphere - feeling
• Elements of the story - Plot


  How the author arranges events to develop his basic idea
• Plot - Introduction


  Beginning of the story where the character and setting is revealed
• Plot - Rising action


  Where the events in the story become complicated and the conflict in the story is revealed
• Plot - Climax


  Highest point of interest and the turning point of the story
• Plot - Falling action


  Events and complications begin to resolve themselves
• Plot - Denouement


  Final outcome or the untangling of events in the story
• Elements of the story - Conflict

  Essential to a plot
• Elements of the story - Character


  Defined as any person, animal, or figure represented in a literary work
• Elements of the story - Theme


  Controlling idea or its central insight