American Born Chinese
The Joy Luck Club is a famous film about life of the ABC.
American dream：A national ethos of the United States, the set of ideals (Democracy, Rights, Liberty, Opportunity, and Equality) in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers.
Fiction：The classification for any story created by the imagination, rather than based strictly on history or fact.
SARS=Severe acute respiratory syndrome
The Torah, or the Pentateuch：The central reference of the religious Judaic tradition.
Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a work.
Motif about this sound is any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story.
Symbol is a person or a concept that represents, stands for or suggests another idea, visual image, belief, action or material entity.
Dramatic irony：The device of giving the spectator an item of information that at least one of the characters in the narrative is unaware of, thus placing the spectator a step ahead of at least one of the characters.
ann-, enn-：year
ex：annual meeting, annversity
-gene：Meaning birth, origin, creation
ex：genetics
cardio-：meaning pertaining to the heart
ex：cardiogram, cardiology
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