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Literature Vocab 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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