| Dictionary Term | Cross References |
| Doric | John Milton |
| Hermeticism | Renaissance lit., Milton |
| Latinism | stylistic device, rhetorical device, Milton |
| Miltonic sonnet | sonnet, Milton |
| Western (con't) | Zane Grey, Jack Shaefer, Winifred Blevins, Bill Gulick, Donald Hamilton, Dorothy Johnson, Louis L-Amour, Peggy Curry |
| blank verse | meter, rhythm, Earl of Surrey, John Milton, Renaissance drama, Thomas Heywood |
| catachresis | stylistic device, rhetorical device, Renaissance poetry, John Milton |
| catalogue verse | poetry genre, John Milton |
| closet drama | drama genre, Renaissance drama, John Milton |
| commonwealth period | Renaissance lit., British literary history, thomas browne, edmund waller, john milton, thomas fuller, jeremy taylor, abraham cowley, andrew marvell, henry vaughan |
| decorum | element of literature, Renaissance lit., John Skelton, John Milton, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play |
| dissociation of sensibility | Renaissance poetry, Metaphysical poetry, T.S. Eliot, John Donne, John Milton, John Dryden |
| elegy | poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Donne, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Carew, John Cleveland, Ben Jonson, Henry King, John Milton, British literary history, Spenser, Sidney |
| encomium | literature genre, poetry genre, Milton, Renaissance lit., occasional verse, ode, panegyric |
| epanalepsis | rhetorical device, stylistic device, John Milton |
| epic | literature genre, poetry genre, general literary history, British literary history, Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Milton |
| grand style | Milton |
| horror story | prose fiction genre, general literary history, Renaissance lit., Marlowe, Ralegh, Browne, Milton, Renaissance drama |
| inversion | stylistic device, rhetorical device, John Milton |
| invocation | epic, John Milton |
| masque | drama genre, Renaissance drama, Jonson, Shakespeare play, Dekker, John Ford, Milton, Sidney, Daniel, Chapman, Shirley, Carew, Fletcher, Campion, Beaumont, Middleton |
| narrative verse | poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Marlowe, Daniel, Drayton, Cowley, Milton, general literary history, British literary history |
| noble savage | element of literature, archetype, Renaissance lit., Milton, Montaigne |
| occasional verse | poetry genre, Milton, Marvell |
| octosyllabic verse | meter, rhythm, Milton, Jonson |
| oxymoron | stylistic device, rhetorical device, figurative language, SHakespeare play, Renaissance lit., Milton, Wyatt, Crashaw, Renaissance poetry, paradox |
| 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 |
| proem | poetry genre, Milton |
| proposition | element of literature, Milton |
| question, epic | epic, Milton |
| song | poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Wyatt, Campion, Suckling, Herrick, Lovelace, Jonson, Milton, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Dekker, Beaumont&Fletcher, Jonson play, Suckling play, Shirley, British literary history, Rest&18thc Brit. lit. |
| sonnet | sonnet, general literary history, Italian lit., British literary history, Wyatt, Gascoigne, Sidney, Daniel, Lodge, Constable, Drayton, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Milton, long entry |
| stichomythia | element of drama, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Milton |
| trochee | poetry, meter, prosody, ancient Roman lit., Milton, Longfellow, Robert Lowell |
| villain (con't) | Milton |
| volta | octave, sestet, sonnet, poetry genre, Miltonic sonnet |