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Lit Terms Unit 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| mood | the atmosphere in a literary work. |
| motivation | a set of circumstances that causes a character to act in a certain way or determines the outcome of a situation. |
| narration | telling a story. |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that sound like the sounds they describe. |
| oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression. |
| paradox | when the parts of a statement contradict each other. |
| personification | gives inanimate objects human characteristics. |
| plot | the sequence of events in a story. |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told. |
| prosody | the study of sound and rhythm in poetry. |
| protagonist | the central character in a story. |
| pun | a play on words that sound alike but have different meanings. |
| repetition | the deliberate use of any element of language more than once. |
| rhyme | the repetition of sounds in words that are close to each other. |
| sarcasm | a device in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it. |