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Lorca: Canción de jinete (30)
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| Córdoba | city on the Guadalquivir river in Andalucía; was important Muslim pilgrimage site during Middle Ages due to its huge mosque |
| un jinete | horse rider |
| una jaca | pony |
| un caballito | little horse |
| una alforja | saddlebags |
| unas aceitunas | olives |
| lejano, -a, -os, -as | distant, far (adj) |
| solo, -a, -os, -as | alone (adj.) |
| aunque + subjunctive | even if |
| aunque + indicative | even though |
| los caminos | the roads |
| llegar a | to get to, to arrive |
| el llano | the plains (flat land) |
| la torre | the tower |
| tan largo | so long (i.e. the river is SO long) |
| valeroso, -a, -os, -as | brave |
| el contenido | the content |
| la primera vez | the first time |
| la luna | moon |
| misterioso, -a, -os, -as | mysterious |
| dramático, -a, -os, -as | dramatic |
| el presentimiento | foreknowledge, a feeling that something will happen |
| una mesquita | mosque |
| octosílaba; octosilábico, -a, -os, -as | an 8 syllable line of poetry |
| trísilaba | a 3 syllable line of poetry |
| rima asonante | a rhyme scheme in which, looking at the last word of each line of the poem, there is a pattern of repeated stress (i.e. in the Jinete poem |
| un romance vs una lengua romance | a type of medieval poetry that is still very popular today vs a language derived from Latin |
| un estribillo | a line of poetry often repeated both at the beginning and the end of a poem |
| una metáfora | a metaphor (look up in English dictionary if you don't know this term) |
| un romance | a poem structure originating in the Medieval era but still popular today in poetry, the Mexican corrido (song) tradition, and modern songs: each line has 8 syllables and has assonant rhyme (sp?) |
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