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Unit 2 Literaryterms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mood | the atmosphere in a literary work |
| Motivation | a set of circumstances that cause character to act |
| Narration | telling a story |
| Onomatopoeia | words that sound like the sounds they describe |
| Oxymoron | combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression |
| Paradox | parts of a statement contradict each other |
| Personification | gives human characteristics |
| Plot | the sequence of events |
| Point of view | the perspective from which the story is told |
| Prosody | the study of sound and rhythm in poetry |
| Protagonist | the central character |
| Pun | a play on words that sounds alike but have different meanings |
| Repetition | the deliberate use of any element of language more than once |
| Rhyme | the repetion of sounds in words that are close to each other |
| Sarcasm | a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it |