UIL Vocab Part 1

a form of irony in which a person feigns indifference to or pretends to refuse something he or she desires

• Accismus

• Simile

• Anaphora

• Ballad

a word formed from the initial letters of words and pronounced as a separate word

• Alliteration

• Acronym

• Metaphor

• Augustan Age

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

• Allusion

• Acrostics

• Alliteration

• Ballad

A reference to another work of literature, person, or event

• Allusion

• Ambiguity

• Acrostic

• Hyperbole

An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way.

• Anthology

• Auditory

• Apostrophe

• Ambiguity

Rustic, straight-talking, unsophisticated, not anxious about his image, unfazed by others' joking.

• Agroikos

• Anglo-Norman Period

• Alterity

• Agrarians

A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences.

• Agrarians

• Auditory

• Anaphora

• Ballad

verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message

• Anthology

• Acrostic

• Apostrophe

• Augustan Age

person who favors an agricultural way of life and government policies that support agricultural interests

• Anaphora

• Agrarians

• Ballad

• Anglo-Norman Period

the state of being other or different; otherness

• Augustan Age

• Alliteration

• Alterity

• Accismus