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Lit Terms Unit 2

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mood   the atmosphere in a literary work.  
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motivation   a set of circumstances that causes a character to act in a certain way or determines the outcome of a situation.  
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narration   telling a story.  
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onomatopoeia   the use of words that sound like the sounds they describe.  
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oxymoron   a form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression.  
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paradox   when the parts of a statement contradict each other.  
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personification   gives inanimate objects human characteristics.  
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plot   the sequence of events in a story.  
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point of view   the perspective from which a story is told.  
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prosody   the study of sound and rhythm in poetry.  
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protagonist   the central character in a story.  
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pun   a play on words that sound alike but have different meanings.  
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repetition   the deliberate use of any element of language more than once.  
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rhyme   the repetition of sounds in words that are close to each other.  
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sarcasm   a device in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it.  
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