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• New Testament
  ...The New Testament is sometimes called the '''Greek New Testament''' or '''Greek Scriptures''', or the ''New Covenant''. ...ks Aramaic in it, the New Testament (including the Gospels) was written in Greek because that was the [[lingua franca]] of the eastern half of the Roman Emp
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• King James Bible
  ...e. The intention was to provide a single English language Bible founded on Greek and Hebrew originals which would be used throughout the whole Church. It is [[Category: Languages and Literature]]
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• Scribes
  ...om [[Latin]] scriba official [[writer]], from scribere to write; akin to [[Greek]] skariphasthai to scratch an [[outline]] [[Category: Languages and Literature]]
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• Vulnerable
  ...ound, from vulner-, vulnus wound; probably akin to Latin vellere to pluck, Greek oulē wound ...found in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_management risk management] [[literature]] (Peacock and Ragsdale 1997; Anderson and Woodrow 1998; Alwang, Siegel et
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• Paraphrase
  Middle French, from [[Latin]] ''paraphrasis'', from [[Greek]], from ''paraphrazein'' to paraphrase, from ''para''- + ''phrazein'' to [[ .... The term "paraphrase" derives via the [[Latin]] "paraphrasis" from the [[Greek]] <<παράφραση>>, meaning "additional [[manner]] of [[expression]]"
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• Obsession
  In 19th century psychiatry, '''monomania''' (from Greek monos, one, and mania, mania) is a single pathological preoccupation in an ...is used often in the description of disorders, and is employed widely in [[literature]] and everyday [[English]].
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• Triad
  Latin triad-, trias, from [[Greek]], from treis [[three]] *4. In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh-language_literature Welsh literature]: A [[form]] of [[composition]] characterized by an arrangement of subjects
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• Phonaesthetics
  '''Phonaesthetics''' (from the Greek: φωνή, phōnē, "[[voice]]-[[sound]]"; and αἰσθητική, aisthē [[Category: Languages and Literature]]
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• Tone
  ==Literature== ...one of a piece of work can be found in many ways. Without tone, a piece of literature would evoke no emotion, and may seem very dull. It would likely be an offic
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• Sanskrit
  ...culture]]s of South]] and Southeast Asia] is akin to that of [[Latin]] and Greek in Europe and it has significantly influenced most modern languages of Nepa The corpus of Sanskrit [[literature]] encompasses a rich tradition of poetry and drama as well as scientific, t
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• Tragedy
  ...ual]] events. Goats were traditionally sacrificed, and as a precursor, the Greek Chorus would sing a song of sacrifice-- a "Goat Song". This may also refer ...s a cry of horror or a yearning lament at some irredeemable loss. In those Greek festivals there erupts what one might call a sentimental tendency in [[natu
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• Epic
  [[Latin]] epicus, from [[Greek]] epikos, from epos [[word]], [[speech]], [[poem]] — more at [[voice]] An epic (from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek Ancient Greek] adjective ἐπικός (epikos), from ἔπος (epos) "[[word]], [[story
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• Topography
  ...H_PERIOD Middle English] topographie, from Late Latin topographia, from [[Greek]], from topographein to describe a place, from topos place + graphein to [ ...]] τόπος (topos, place) and γραφία (graphia, writing). In [[classical]] [[literature]] this refers to [[writing]] about a place or places, what is now largely c
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• Macrocosm and Microcosm
  '''Macrocosm and microcosm''' is an ancient [[Greek philosophy|Greek]] schema of seeing the same patterns reproduced in all levels of the [[cos ...3bc;&#x03b9;&#x03ba;&#x03c1;&#x03bf;- "Micro-", which are [[Greek language|Greek]] respectively for "large" and "small", and the word [[Cosmos|&#x03ba;&#x1f
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• Socratic
  '''Socratic''' [[dialogue]] (Greek Σωκρατικός λόγος or Σωκρατικός διάλογος) i [[Category: Languages and Literature]]
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• Public speaking
  ...ce of orators in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece ancient Greek] city-states. In classical Greece and Rome, the main component was [[rhetor ...s taught. Though Greece [[eventually]] lost political [[sovereignty]], the Greek culture of [[training]] in public speaking was adopted virtually wholesale
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• Theme
  ...eme, from Anglo-French & [[Latin]]; Anglo-French, from Latin thema, from [[Greek]], [[literally]], something laid down, from tithenai to place The term theme may be used in the same way to refer to works of [[literature]]. A theme is the main [[idea]], or [[message]], of an essay, paragraph, or
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• Theognis
  '''Theognis of Megara''' (fl. 6th century BC) was an ancient Greek [[poet]]. More than half of the extant [[elegiac]] poetry of Greece before ...asis'') and all it implied in the tense [[city-state]] life of the ancient Greek.
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• Latin
  ...hed to word stems. The Latin alphabet, derived from the [[Etruscan]] and [[Greek]] [[alphabets]] (''each of which is derived from the earlier [[Phoenician]] ...grammar, and secondary schools throughout the world, often combined with [[Greek]] in the study of [[Classics]]; but its role has diminished since the early
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• Myth
  '''Myth''' is derived from the [[Greek]] word ''mythos'', which means "word of mouth." [[Category: Languages and Literature]]
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