※ Morale is the capacity of a group's members to maintain belief in an institution or goal
Moral is a message conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event.
※ Aesop's Fables ( Aesopica ) is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE.
" An ass eating thistles " " The Ass Carrying Salt " "The Farmer and His Sons "
※ carpe diem is a Latin aphorism, usually translated "seize the day", taken from book 1 of the Roman poet Horace's work Odes (23 BC).
for example,
" Gather ye rosebuds while ye may " is the first line from the poem To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
" To His Coy Mistress " is a metaphysical poem
I can't be contented with yesterday's glory
I can't live on promises winter to spring
Today is my moment, now is my story
I'll laugh and I'll cry and I'll sing
※ iambic tetrameter is a meter in poetry.
It refers to a line consisting of four iambic feet.
※ lyre is a string instrument known for its use in Greek classical antiquity and later periods.
※ Lyric poetry is a form of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. The term owes its importance in literary theory to the division developed by Aristotle between three broad categories of poetry: lyrical, dramatic and epic.
Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters as well. Narrative poems include epics, ballads, idylls, and lays.
※ Seven deadly sins is also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins, is a Western grouping and classification of vices.
Though the sins have fluctuated over time, the currently recognized list includes pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth. There is a parallel tradition of seven virtues.
※ folklore can be described as traditional art, literature, knowledge, and practices that are passed on in large part through oral communication and example.
myth feature deities and often concern creation stories.
legend are set in the past and tell of heroes and kings and deeds of valor. They are may be based on real people or actual events.
※ fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are
anthropomorphized and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson.
parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. Parables have human characters without animals, and parable is a type of analogy. For example, New Testament
allegory has been used widely throughout history in all forms of art, largely because it can readily illustrate complex ideas and concepts in ways that are comprehensible or striking to its viewers, readers, or listeners. For example, The Faerie Queene
※ King James Version is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England that begun in 1604 and completed in 1611.
※ " the boy who cried wolf " " The Fox and the Grapes " " The North Wind and the Sun "
※ Dystopian fiction is the opposite: creation of an utterly horrible or degraded society that is generally headed to an irreversible oblivion, or dystopia.
for example, The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Giver
Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal society, or utopia, as the setting for a novel.
foe example, Utopia
● sentence
be trapped on
spare me
dispense with
be apt to
inconvenient = in the way
● di- : 2
divorce
diversity
divid
● morph : form
anthropomorphize
● anthro- : human
anthropology
anthropoid
anthroposociology
● de- : down
defeat
deplane
dethrone
● -ity :
superiority
majority
inferiority
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