Proverb, succinct and pithy saying in general use, expressing commonly held ideas and beliefs.

Proverbs
are part of every spoken language and are related to such other forms of folk literature as riddles and
fables that have originated in oral tradition. Comparisons of proverbs found in various parts of the world
show that the same kernel of wisdom may be gleaned under different cultural conditions and languages.

“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,”

“A goat’s hide buys a goat’s hide, and a gourd, a gourd.”

“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”

“A soft answer turneth away wrath”

“The love of money is the root of all evil”

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Riddle, deliberately enigmatic or ambiguous question requiring a thoughtful and often witty answer. The
riddle is a form of guessing game that has been a part of the folklore of most cultures from ancient
times. Western scholars generally recognize two main kinds of riddle: the descriptive riddle and the
shrewd or witty question.

“What runs about all day and lies under the bed at night?”

A shoe

“What’s black and white and red all over?”—“A newspaper,”

“What grows bigger the more you take from it?”—“A hole”

“The man who made it did not want it; the man who bought it did not use it; the man who used it did
not know it”—“A coffin.”

“What is the strongest of all things?”—“Love: iron is strong, but the blacksmith is stronger, and love can
subdue the blacksmith.”

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Epics

Epic, long narrative poem recounting heroic deeds, although the term has also been loosely used to
describe novels, such as Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, and motion pictures, such as Sergey Eisenstein’s
Ivan the Terrible. In literary usage, the term encompasses both oral and written compositions.

The prime examples of the oral epic are Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Outstanding examples of the written
epic include Virgil’s Aeneid and Lucan’s Pharsalia in Latin, Chanson de Roland in medieval French,
Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso and Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata in Italian, Cantar de mio
Cid in Spanish, and John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene in English.

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Novel, an invented prose narrative of considerable length and a certain complexity that deals
imaginatively with human experience, usually through a connected sequence of events involving a group
of persons in a specific setting. Within its broad framework, the genre of the novel has encompassed an
extensive range of types and styles: picaresque, epistolary, Gothic, romantic, realist, historical—to name
only some of the more important ones.

Arthur Koestler’s The Gladiators (1939), Robert Graves’s I, Claudius (1934), Zoé

Oldenbourg’s Destiny of Fire (1960), and Mary Renault’s The King Must Die (1958)

Forever Amber (1944) by Kathleen Winsor

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