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📜British Literature I
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339 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your British Literature I exam

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A

Alexander Pope
All's Well That Ends Well
Allegorical characters
Alliterative Morte Arthure
Alliterative Verse
Anglo-Saxon Culture
Animal Farm
Aphra Behn
Appearance vs reality
Arcadia
Architectural imagery
Areopagitica
Aristotelian Tragedy
As You Like It
Astraea redux
Astronomical imagery
Astrophil and Stella
Auditory imagery
Augustan Age
Augustan Literature

B

Bacon's Essays
Ballads
Bawdy humor
Ben Jonson
Beowulf Manuscript
Biblical allusions
Biblical references
Bildungsroman
Blackfriars Theatre
Blank verse
Blazon
Blindness
Bob and wheel
Book of Common Prayer
Book of Kells
British Enlightenment

C

Caedmon's Hymn
Canonization
Canterbury Cathedral
Celtic Mythology
Character Foils
Charles II
Chivalric Code
Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England
Christianity's Influence
Christopher Marlowe
Clarissa
Classical allusions
Classical learning
Classical literature
Classical mythology
Classical references
Classical unities
Comedy of humours
Comic epic in prose
Comic relief
Conceits
Couplet
Courtly culture
Courtly love
Courtly Romance
Cromwellian England

D

Dark lady
Death be not proud
Dialect Differences
Digressive narrative
Direct characterization
Double entendres
Dramatic Conflict
Dramatic Irony
Dramatic Monologue
Dream of the Rood
Dream vision
Dynamic Character Development

E

Easter Wings