Jun 51 min readAn 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 min readAn 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 min readAn 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 read 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 min readAn English Teacher's Glossary - ParallelismOne way writers give coherence to very long sentences (or paragraphs) is the use of parallelism
May 71 min readAn 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