Jun 51 minAn English Teacher's Glossary - ParadoxA form of irony where a seeming contradiction turns out to be a profound truth, for example, Jesus' words: ‘So the last shall be first......
May 141 minAn English Teacher's Glossary - PentameterA line of poetry made up of ten (occasionally eleven) syllables or five ‘feet’. The rhythm is nearly always iambic
May 131 minAn English Teacher's Glossary -Â PatoisA dialect of the language of a particular region considered by prescriptivists to be nonstandard or of low status, e.g. pidgin in Nigeria.
May 91 min An English Teacher's Glossary - PasticheFrequently used pejoratively to describe writing which lacks originality, pastiche has been given a kind of respectability by the so-called
May 82 minAn English Teacher's Glossary - ParallelismOne way writers give coherence to very long sentences (or paragraphs) is the use of parallelism
May 81 minAn English Teacher's Glossary - ParodyThey say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and in some cases it is, but most parodies intend to make fun of....
May 71 minAn English Teacher's Glossary - ParallaxI find this word, which literally refers to optical illusions in space, a useful trope for lexical ambiguity, whether deliberate or accident
May 51 minAn English Teacher's Glossary - Paradigm shiftThis occurs when one theory is dramatically replaced by another, for example when science (Copernicus) displaced dogma (the mediaeval...