The Categories Of Oral Tradition In The Umudike Community

Literature does not always come in a written form. Native American literature, for example, was mainly an oral form of storytelling. This form of literature often includes certain characteristics throughout the story. These characteristics range from ways that the stories were told to what the stories include or involve.

In his text James Paul Gee attempts to paint a big picture of discourse to the audience. He starts with giving the definition of the word discourse and following that with how it fits into the English language as well as examples. In the continuing section he shows that discourse has more than one meaning and goes on to explain what it could also mean. An important part of this text was what he explained speakers/writers and listeners/readers do. This is an idea that both the orator and the audience is doing a job and what is said or understood has to do with each other as well as multiple other factors. Gee emphasizes the fact that both the orator and the audience are designers who like artist and or musicians design our language to say and

In the past twenty-five centuries, the essence of music and art were used as a form of literature. Writers that have not been writing in the past twenty-five centuries tended to music and arts as a way to implement this theme. Arts such as live performances, oracles and paintings or drawings were used to portray a story. These helped people see things through own perspective.

Native American author Nadine Thader has written a book called The Importance of Storytelling for the Survival of Native American Religion, and in the book Thader describes the way legends and stories were shared from one generation to another, and she insists that the "most important function (of storytelling) is to "display Native American religion" (Thader, 2009, p 21). In fact much the history of Native American tribes has been and is today preserved through the art of storytelling. Thader references Arthur Grove Day, who explained that Indians made poems for many reasons, among them, to: a) praise their gods; b) speak to gods through rites; c) work "magical cures" or ask for "supernatural aid in hunting"; d) "chronicle tribal history"; e) teach proper conduct and explain the origins of the world; f) arouse laughter or ridicule "a rival or bewitch an enemy"; g) mark the "beauties of nature"; and h) to "boast of one's greatness" or to simply express joy and a "spirit of fun" (Thader, 21).

Problems often arise when we consider the use of verbal stories as a means of passing down knowledge due to the fact that over time we lose bits and pieces of a story. It definitely calls into question the reliability of the stories as accurate accounts of history and has caused many researchers to regard oral history as biased accounts compared with the presumed accuracy of the written word. The high regard given to writers also ignores the fact that writers can also be prejudiced in their writings. Though spoken word is much older than written word, the two methods complement each other with their unique attributes. For example emotions, gesticulations and intonations conveyed through the performance of spoken word is lost when converted to written word, but while spoken word changes over time, written word remains the same.

Stories play a very important role in our society. However, the process that the story is told differs based on its form. For example is it a poem (which has a specific form and style) or is it a prose (written/spoken language without any metrical structure)? Although poetry and prose greatly differs from each other, there are many similarities between them. Prose is defined to be in an ordinary form, but prose can share some poetic qualities such as literary devices, imagery, and theme, and many more. Tim O’Brien’s Things They Carried depicts a fragmented stories about his and other soldiers’ experiences that occurred in the Vietnam War. Similarly, the poem, “Facing It” shows a soldier who returns to the Memorial of the Vietnam War where he recalls his own trauma in the war as he looks at the stones. Both the prose, Things They Carried and the poem, “Facing it” conveys the similar theme where they are struggling to overcome the trauma of the war and face the reality. However, the style and the form that the poem and the prose is depicted differs from each other.

This week we will begin our new unit where the students will be reading a variety of short stories that fall into the genre Oral Tradition. In addition to reading folk tales, fables, and myths, they will also write two stories in this genre. The students will also be introduced to figurative language, which is prevalent in Oral Tradition stories.

The history or moral objective of the story takes on a personal tone as each listener knows one day he will tell these stories to his children and they, to their children. The sense of participation and responsibility in the proliferation of the stories is not present in a literary transcription.

For the purpose of this essay I am relating what little I know based on Indigenous Orality in Canada. Indigenous people are and have been recognized as a people who come from oral traditions. The traditions associated with Orality encompass several different aspects of Indigenous realities and ways of being (Wilson & Taylor, 2005). Orality could be argued to have shifted through technology and our connected world and has become the incorporation of traditional Indigenous stories and teachings that can be displayed throughout different mediums. With this contemporary definition in mind Orality plays a large role in Indigenous resurgence, and thus is relevant and needed in this digital world. The Concepts and teachings associated with Orality

In brief, the rhetorical analysis has applied for the purpose to analyze this article, to understand the deeply meaning which the authors want to deliver to readers. The authors know how to use both rhetorical strategies and appeals in a clever way, for they have interacted and supported each other very well in this article.

The level of author is a combination of oral tradition as well as the written tradition.

Oral tradition is myth and legend that is passed down from from generation to generation. The tale of Camelot was built upon as each generation added qualities to Arthur that they wanted in a hero. It was not until Chretien de Troyes a french man who could write well was able to write these stories down in

Imagine being able to tell stories for generations to come without ever having to write down a single word. Oral tradition is used to pass stories down from generation to generation through different forms of communication without any writing system. Oral tradition stories are told by word of mouth, riddles, storytelling, and songs. It cannot be changed although the narrator might embellish it. Oral tradition is how Africans perceived the past. The significance of oral Tradition is due to the stories holding so much information and knowledge. Oral tradition contributed to understanding pre-colonial history because the pre-colonial Africa was influenced by two major movements which are the expansion of islam and the dispersion of the bantu. Oral tradition gave us the perspective as to why the expansion and dispersion took place. Oral tradition has its strengths and weaknesses. A strength of oral tradition is that it is being told from word of mouth and more people will listen to a good storyteller than to go read a book about the history. However, a weakness of oral tradition is that many of the stories get forgotten, left out, or embellished. With each re-telling the story gets further and further away from the original. Oral tradition is a primary way of conveying culture and is a way of life in African history.

In this part of the essay, there will be discussion on how the commonly used approach of genre is utilize for which purpose of discourse. They are, typography, oral, and iconography approach. All of these approaches of genre usage will be discussed in detail in this section of the essay.

Literature is not made up of just stories. Poems and songs can be attributed to literature. Poetry and songs, like the nursery rhymes of childhood, are also vital to a culture. Sometimes a story is told in the form of a poem or song. And sometimes a poem or song can be pure entertainment. However labeled in a culture, the poems and songs