Lit

• Literatin


  Resene: and set aside by the government for specific purpose
• Luminos


  Emitting light
• Pulsate


  To throb, beat rhythmically
• Suppress


  To keep secret
• Theme


  A message about life or human nature
• To give up the ghost


  To become lifeless
• Peat


  A plant-based fuel source
• Simile


  A comparison, using the word "like" or "as" of 2 things that have the same quality
• Speaker


  Voice within a poem
• Line


  Horizontal row of words which might form a complete
• Stanza


  Group of lines forming a unit
• Rhythm


  Pattern of sound created by the arrangements of stressed unstressed syllables
• Meter


  Regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that sets the overall rhythm of a certain poem. The basic unit in measuring rhythm is the foot
• Rhyme scheme


  The pattern of rhyme formed by end rhyme
• Alliteration


  Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words or at the ends of words
• Assonance


  Repetition of vowel sounds
• Onomatopoeia


  Use of words or phrases, such as swoosh or clank
• Figure of speech


  Simile, Metaphor - compare 2 or more different things and reveals something they share in common without using the word like or as. Personification involves giving human form or characteristics to an animal, object or idea
• African languages


  Khoisan (far south), Nilo-Saharan (North central Africa), Niger-Congo (West and eastward), Afro-Asiatic (North Africa)
• Stela


  Carved stone slab or pillar used for commemorative purposes
• Mahatep


  Wrote a work of philosophy dating back to 2880 BC
• Impede


  To hinder, slow the progress
• Emerge


  To come forth
• Implement


  Instrument used to carry out tasks
• Glower


  To look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger
• Quarry


  Something that is sought or pursued as prey
• Kraals


  Fenced or enclosed area
• Hoist


  To raise or pull up
• Hack


  To use heavily to cut or chop in an irregular or unskillful manner
• Indignantly


  Quality of being filled with a dignified anger
• Nape


  Back of the neck
• Toil


  Fatiguing work or effort
• Retort


  To reply in kind, especially with anger or with a witty or insulting response
• Dissension


  Disagreement, discord
• Compound


  Fenced or walled-in area containing a group of buildings
• Vex


  To annoy
• Farakourou


  Master smith and soothsayer
• Balla Fasseke


  Mansa's griot
• Sogolon Djamarou


  Mansa's sister
• Derisively


  Using ridicule or scorn to show contempt