UIL Literary Criticism Study Guide Exam 2024

UIL Literary Criticism Study Guide Exam 2024 accismus - CORRECT ANSWER-a form of irony in which a person feigns indifference to or pretends to refusesomething he or she desires acronym - CORRECT ANSWER-a word formed from the initial letters of words and pronounced as a separate word acrostic - CORRECT ANSWER-verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message Agrarians - CORRECT ANSWER-person who favors an agricultural way of life and government policies that support agricultural interests agroikos - CORRECT ANSWER-Rustic, straight-talking, unsophisticated, not anxious about his image, unfazed by others' joking. alliteration - CORRECT ANSWER-Repetition of initial consonant sounds allusion - CORRECT ANSWER-A reference to another work of literature, person, or event alterity - CORRECT ANSWER-the state of being other or different; otherness ambiguity - CORRECT ANSWER-An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way. anaphora - CORRECT ANSWER-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. Anglo-Norman Period - CORRECT ANSWER-the period in English literature between 1100 and 1350, which is also often called the Early Middle English Period and is frequently dated from the Conquest in 1066 anthology - CORRECT ANSWER-A collection of various writings, such as songs, stories, or poems apostrophe - CORRECT ANSWER-A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply auditory - CORRECT ANSWER-Having to do with the sense of hearing