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📖British Literature II
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265 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your British Literature II exam

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A

A Taste of Honey
Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude
Androgynous mind
Angel in the House
Angry Young Men Movement
Animal Farm
Ann Radcliffe
Anti-fascist themes
Anti-hero
Arms and the Man
Art for art's sake
Arthur Machen
Atmospheric Dread

B

Beauty as truth
Big Brother
Bildungsroman structure
Blank verse
Bleak House
Bloomsbury Group
Breaking the fourth wall
British Colonialism

C

Celtic Revival
Character consciousness
Character foils
Charles Dickens
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Christopher Isherwood
Class conflict
Class disparity
Class distinctions
Class inequality
Cli-fi
Climate fiction
Conversational style
Cultural appropriation
Cultural Hybridity
Cut-up

D

Dante
David Copperfield
David Mitchell
Debtors' prisons
Decadence
Decolonial Theory
Democratization of poetry
Dialect variations
Digital literature
Divine Creation
Domestic sphere
Doppelgänger motif
Dorothy Wordsworth
Dramatic Irony
Dual identity
Duty versus Desire
Dystopian literature

E

Ebenezer Scrooge
Ecocriticism
Edgar Allan Poe
Edwardian Society
Eliza Doolittle
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Emotive language
Endymion
Epistolary elements
Epistolary form
Epistolary Format
Ergodic literature
Esther Summerson
Ezra Pound

F

F.R. Leavis
Female autonomy
Female bildungsroman
Female education
Feminist criticism
Feminist critiques
Feminist literary criticism