1. Test on Units 9 and 10 on 1/27
Unit 10 Vocabulary

2. Unit 10 Vocabulary
Enjambment: continuation from one line of verse into the next line.
Hyperbole: extravagant exaggeration.
Onomatopoeia: using words that imitate the sound they denote.
Paradox: a statement that contradicts itself.
Anapest: a metrical unit of poetry that is denoted by unstressed – unstressed – stressed syllables.

3. Unit 10 Vocabulary (cont.)
Dactyl: a metrical unit of poetry that is denoted by stressed – unstressed – unstressed syllables
Spondee: a metrical unit of poetry that is denoted by stressed – stressed syllables.
Trochee: a metrical unit of poetry that is denoted by stressed – unstressed syllables.
Iamb: a metrical unit of poetry that is denoted by unstressed – stressed syllables.
Sestet: the last six lines in a sonnet.

4. Unit 10 Vocabulary (cont.)
Euphemism: the substitution of a pleasant or neutral word for something unpleasant.
Dramatic Irony: readers know more about a situation or a character in a story than the characters.
Situational Irony: a contract between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.
Verbal Irony: someone states one thing and implies another meaning.
Repetition: the appropriate reinforcement of ideas by phrasing similar ideas in similar written form.

5. Unit 10 Vocabulary (cont.)
Soliloquy: an address within a dramatic piece in which a character converses with himself or herself, revealing his or her thoughts to the audience without addressing another person on stage .
Sonnet: fourteen lines of rhymed, iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is dependent on the structure of the sonnet.
Tone: the implied emotional attitude or point of view of a writer or speaker as conveyed by his or her diction and imagery.
Persona: the fictional character created by an author, not to be confused with the author himself or herself.
Oxymoron: two qualities that are normally considered impossible to exist together.