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ENGL 2212 Final

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Festa in the Old World
is a religious event celebrating a saint that involves caring a statue of the saint around and is more formal.
Festa in the New world
is a religious event celebrating a saint that involves caring a saints statue around and is less formal.
St. Lucia
is a woman who became a saint due to her getting murdered to protect her purity.
Meme
is an image, brief text, or combination of image and text that is transmitted via digital media with enough frequency to become immediately
Proverb
is a metaphorical story or phrase that gives advice that is obvious because it has an expressed simile or has internal clues to a comparison
True riddle
is a metaphorical story or phrase that is a puzzle with a reference that is not obvious because the point is to figure it out.
High context
is a social situation in which there is a greater than ordinary need for insider information to make sense of a folklore genre.
Internet native
are people who were born recently enough and had access to the internet that they take the internet for granted and can easily use it.
Internet immigrant
are people who are old enough to have experience the start of the internet or did not have access to internet early enough causing them to h
Vernacular authority in digital communication
is the power that folk groups have to manipulate the medium and express their own message through folk groups.
Netizen
is a person whose internet or other digital communications activity leads him or her to develop a sense of community that reaches outside of
Leapfrogging
occurs when a group acquires an advanced technology without experience of several intermediate steps in technological development.
Digital performance
is performance that a person makes in a digital format that is viewable to other members of a folk group.
Small world theory
is an idea proposed in the 1960s that any two individuals can be linked by a chain of six or fewer individuals.