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Literature Vocab 3
Term | Definition |
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aspirate | letters pronounced with a puff of air, as in hot |
Briton | the people or language of ancient England |
case | a form of noun, pronoun, or adjective that shows its relation to other words |
Celts | ancient people of the British Isles |
Chaucer | poet of fourteenth century England |
clergy | a group of pastors or priests |
diphthongal glide | one vowel which becomes two sounds when pronounced, as in long a |
ecclesiastic | a churchman, such as a pastor or bishop |
gender | the noun grouping into masculine, feminine, and neuter |
Great Vowel Shift | a period of spelling changes in English, particularly the changing of vowels to diphthongs |
melting pot | one city or country containing many cultures |
mood | the form of verb to indicate fact, doubt, command, etc. |
number | the form of a word which indicates the singular or plural |
person | a change in a pronoun or verb to show who is speaking |
Shakespeare | a poet of sixteenth century England |
tense | the form of a verb which shows time relation |
Tyndale | translator of the Bible in the sixteenth century |
Wycliffe | fourteenth century translator of the English bible |