Dictionary Term	Cross References
character, the	literary genre, Renaissance literature, Joseph Hall, Thomas Overbury, Webster, Dekker, Donne, John Earle, Theophrastus
conceit	Henry Vaughan, Walter Ralegh, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, John Cleveland, John Donne
discordia concors	Renaissance poetry, Metaphysical poetry, Abraham Cowley, John Donne, Samuel Johnson, diminishing metaphor, conceit, figurative language
dissociation of sensibility	Renaissance poetry, Metaphysical poetry, T.S. Eliot, John Donne, John Milton, John Dryden
dramatic monologue	poetry genre, British literary history, Renaissance poetry, John Donne, Metaphysical poetry, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell
elegy	poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Donne, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Carew, John Cleveland, Ben Jonson, Henry King, John Milton, British literary history, Spenser, Sidney
epigram	literary genre, stylistic device, rhetorical device, poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Jonson, Donne, Herrick, Drummond, British literary history
epithalamion	poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Marvell, Crashaw, Suckling
heroic couplet	stanza form, Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Hall, Drayton, Fletcher, Beaumont, Donne, Waller, Denham
lyric	poetry genre, general literary history, Renaissance poetry, Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Daniel, Spenser, Shakespeare, Campion, Drayton, Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Lovelace, Suckling, Carew, Marvell, Herrick, Herbert, Vaughan
metaphysical	Renaissance poetry, Donne, Carew, Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan, Marvell, Cleveland, Cowley
paradox	stylistic device, rhetorical device, Renaissance lit., Shakespeare play, Milton, Browne, Donne, Marvell, British literary history, metaphysical, new criticism, deconstructionist literary criticism
parody	satire, literary genre, literature genre, Renaissance lit. Shakespeare play, Siuckling, Donne, Milton, British literary history
pastoral	literary genre, general literary history, Renaissance lit., Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Marlowe, Ralegh, Drayton, Jonson, Shirley, Sidney, Donne, Fletcher, Milton, Marvell, British literary history
satire	satire, general literary history, Renaissance lit., Renaissance poetry, British literary history, Donne, Marston, Hall, Jonson
sermon	nonfiction prose genre, Renaissance nonfiction prose, Andrewes, Hall, Donne, Jeremy Taylor
sonnet	sonnet, general literary history, Italian lit., British literary history, Wyatt, Gascoigne, Sidney, Daniel, Lodge, Constable, Drayton, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Milton, long entry
sonnet cycle	sonnet, general literary history, Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne
synaesthesia	stylistic device, rhetorical device, Renaissance poetry, Donne Crashaw
wit	Renaissance lit., Roger Ascham, Lyly, Philip Sidney, Boyle, Locke, Hobbes, 18th century lit., Dryden, Cowley, Pope, Samuel Johnson, Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot, Donne, Marvell, fancy and imagination, jeu d'esprit