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🪕World Literature I
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570 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your World Literature I exam

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A

Abhidharma Pitaka
Absalom and Achitophel
Absurdist theater
Acta sanctorum
Adab literature
Adventure stories
Aeneas and the Trojan Origins of Rome
Aeschylus
Akkadian Language
Al-hamadhani
Al-Jahiz
Alcaic Stanza
Alexandrian School
Alfred Lord Tennyson
All Quiet on the Western Front
Allegory of the Cave
Alliteration and Assonance
Analects of Confucius
Ancestor worship
Ancestral Reverence
Ancient Mesopotamian Myths
Andean Narrative
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Anima/animus
Animal Farm
Anonymous
Antagonists
Antihero
Apocalyptic visions
Apollonius of Rhodes
Arabic Ghazal Tradition
Arabic Influence
Archaic Greece
Archetypal analysis
Archetypal figures
Aristophanes' The Acharnians
Aristotelian ethics
Aristotle's Poetics
Ars amatoria
Aside
Atharva Veda
Athenian Golden Age
Augustan Age
Augustan Ideology in Literature
Augustan Literature
Augustine of Hippo
Authorial bias

B

Babylonian Mythology
Betrayal
Bhagavad Gita
Bhakti
Biblical parables
Blank verse
Book of Job
Book of Proverbs
Breaking the fourth wall
Buddhist Precepts
Buddhist Sutras
Byzantine Tradition

C

Call and response
Call to Adventure
Call-and-response
Callimachus' Hymns
Candide
Canso
Carolingian Latin
Cautionary tales
Character arc
Character Archetypes
Chilam Balam
Chinese Shi Poetry
Chinua Achebe
Chivalric ideals
Chivalry
Christian Morality