MYP5 Unit 2: Migration Poetry (Unit Word Bank)

tradition

values and beliefs passed from generation to generation

folklore

The traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people, transmitted orally.

patrimony

a family inheritance; historically from the father's side

lineage

direct descent from an ancestor

heirloom

a family possession handed down from generation to generation

heritage

something that comes or belongs to one by reason of birth; an inherited lot

diaspora

A dispersion of people from their homeland

ancestral

inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent

legacy

An inheritance; something handed down from an ancestor or from the past

multiculturalism

The practice of valuing and respecting differences in culture.

inheritance

property passing at the owner's death to the heir or those entitled to succeed

rooted

establish deeply and firmly.

preserved

maintain (something) in its original or existing state.

lexical-borrowing

process of adopting words or phrases from another language

lexicon

group of words specific to a topic

olfactory imagery

descriptive language that appeals to the sense of smell

tactile imagery

descriptive language that appeals to the sense of touch

visual imagery

descriptive language that appeals to the sense of sight

auditory imagery

use of language to represent an experience pertaining to sound

gustatory imagery

descriptive language that appeals to the sense of taste

Personification

the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

Juxtaposition

placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast

Oxymoron

conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence')

Caesura

A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.

Enjambment

A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.

Tricolon

Sentence consisting of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses.

Allusion

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

Alliteration

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

Anaphora

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses