The Thousand and One Nightsas a Mirror of Elite Society in the Abbasid Empire

Honors – World Literature

Week 6

Doc Holley

Vocabulary

• courtiers• elites• sectarian• folktales• caliphs• ostentation• tall tales• dais• jetty

Describe the various settings.• Time

• Place

What was the author’s purpose for providing that information?

How does it contribute to the tales?

What adjectives are used to create the tone of the tales?

Settings

Imagery

• Color is often used to create tone and develop a picture in the mind of the reader.

• What colors are used in the text?

• What emotions, ideas are associated with the colors?

Figurative Language

• Simile• Hyperbole

How are the about literary devices used to describe things in the text? Provide textual support.

Parts of Speech

Verbs can create tone within the text. List the action verbs.

• Organize and categorize them. • Describe how they are effective and then

analyze the authors use of them. • What information do the verbs provide to the

main ideas of the text?