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

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A

A room of one's own
A Tale of Two Cities
A Taste of Honey
A woman must have money and a room of her own
Abolition of Slavery
Abolition of the Slave Trade
Abolitionism
Absurdism
Accessible language
Aesthetic Experience
Aestheticism
Agency
Agnosticism
Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude
Albert Camus
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alienation
Alliteration
Allusion
Ambiguity
Ambition
American Revolution
Androgynous mind
Angel in the House
Angry Young Men Movement
Animal Farm
Ann Radcliffe
Anti-fascist themes
Anti-hero
Antistrophe
Anxiety
Arms and the Man
Art for art's sake
Arthur Machen
Atmospheric Dread

B

Barbara Kingsolver
Beauty
Beauty as truth
Being and nothingness
Big Brother
Big data narratives
Bildungsroman
Bildungsroman structure
Blank verse
Bleak House
Bloomsbury Group
Breaking the fourth wall
Bret Easton Ellis
Brion Gysin
British Book Award
British Colonialism
Bureaucracy
Byronic hero

C

Capitalism
Caricature
Carl Jung
Castles
Catherine
Catherine Blake
Celtic Revival
Character consciousness
Character foils
Character motivations
Characterization
Charles Darwin
Charles Dickens
Chartism
Child labor
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Chinua Achebe
Christopher Isherwood
Class conflict
Class differences
Class disparity
Class distinctions