These words form part of the discussion of the readings for this section, and you should become familiar with them. You can find them defined separately in the Glossary in the back of our textbook, as well as the online glossary on this site.

Great Vowel Shift (Tudor Vowel Shift)
etymological respelling
his-genitive
group genitive
polite pronoun forms
loss of final -e
aureate diction
humanism

1450-1700 Great Vowel Shift
1588 Spanish Armada
1611 King James Bible
1616 William Shakespeare
1700 John Dryden