lit terms 16-30

Question 1

Hook

Answer 1

Quote, statement, anecdote, statics, opening comment

Question 2

Hubris

Answer 2

: Excessive pride or self-confidence

Question 3

Inciting action

Answer 3

: Event that forces the protagonist to make a chance/kick starts a novel

Question 4

In media res

Answer 4

: In the middle of a thing. Jump you right into the middle

Question 5

Inversion

Answer 5

: Reversal of theme/character/nature, things are upside down.

Question 6

Litotes

Answer 6

: Understatement that is made by using negative. (Hanwen is not so dumb)

Question 7

Metonymy

Answer 7

: Concept using the name of something associated with another. (Got a letter from Washington)

Question 8

Monologue

Answer 8

: One person is speaking to others

Question 9

Motif

Answer 9

: Repeated pattern

Question 10

Motivation

Answer 10

: The reason why the character does something

Question 11

Nemesis

Answer 11

: The antagonist, the antagonist that has to power to kill you

Question 12

Neologism

Answer 12

: New word, did not exist before shakespeare made it up

Question 13

Non Sequitur

Answer 13

: Statement does not make sense. What do you want to be when you grow up? My fav color is red

Question 14

Omniscient:

Answer 14

The all knowing voice in a story

Question 15

Oxymoron

Answer 15

: Opposite contradictory words