| Dictionary Term | Cross References |
| bildungsroman | John Lyly |
| euphuism | stylistic device, rhetorical device, Renaissance lit., John Lyly |
| mannerism | Renaissance lit., Lyly |
| poetic prose | prose, Renaissance lit., Lyly, Browne, Jeremy Taylor |
| university wits | Renaissance lit., British Renaissance lit., Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Lyly, Lodge, Peele, Shakespeare |
| 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 |