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Knowledge Base: English Telling Tales Year 8 | Spring Term
Vocabulary
Definition
Morphology and etymology
2.0
myth
Noun:
A traditional story from the past which is often sacred.
“The word myth derives from the Greek ‘mythos,’ which has a range of meanings from “word,” through to “saying” and “story,” to “fiction””
2.1
hamartia
Noun:
A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine
Hamartia arose from the Greek verb hamartanein, meaning “to miss the mark” or “to err.” (be mistaken)
Aristotle- an ancient Greek philosopher- introduced the term to describe the error of judgment which ultimately brings about the tragic hero’s downfall.
2.2
immortal
Adjective:
Living forever; never dying or decaying.
Prefix im (variant of ‘in’) meaning ‘not’ ‘mort’ from Latin origin meaning death. Suffix ‘al’ means ‘having the form of’
2.3
supernatural
Adjective:
A force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature.
The prefix super- means 'over', 'above' and 'beyond'.
2.4
sacred
Adjective:
Connected with God or a god or dedicated to a religious purpose and so deserving worship.
The term sacred comes from Latin sacer (“set off, restricted”). A person or thing was declared as sacred when it was unique or extraordinary.
2.5
demigod
Noun:
A being with partial or lesser divine (of or like God/ a god) status, such as a minor deity, the offspring of a god and a mortal, or a mortal raised to divine rank.
‘demi’ meaning "half, half-sized, partial,"
2.6
legend
Noun:
A traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but not proven.
In middle English ‘legend’ meant the story of a Saint’s life.
2.7
pantheon
Noun:
1. a group of particularly respected, famous, or important people. 2. all the gods of a people or religion collectively.
From Greek- ‘pan’ meaning ‘all’ + ’theion’ meaning ‘holy’
2.8
protagonist
Noun:
the leading character or one of the major characters in a play, film, novel, etc.
from Greek: prōtos meaning ‘first in importance’ + agōnistēs meaning ‘actor’.
2.9
antagonist
Noun:
the principal opponent or foil of the main character
from Greek antagōnistēs, (‘to struggle with’)
Links to ‘antagonise’ which means to cause (someone) to become hostile or angry.
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