An English Teacher's Glossary - Paradox
A form of irony where a seeming contradiction turns out to be a profound truth, for example, Jesus' words: ‘So the last shall be first......
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An English Teacher's Glossary - Pentameter
A line of poetry made up of ten (occasionally eleven) syllables or five ‘feet’. The rhythm is nearly always iambic
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An English Teacher's Glossary - Patois
A dialect of the language of a particular region considered by prescriptivists to be nonstandard or of low status, e.g. pidgin in Nigeria.
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An English Teacher's Glossary - Pastiche
Frequently used pejoratively to describe writing which lacks originality, pastiche has been given a kind of respectability by the so-called
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An English Teacher's Glossary - Parallelism
One way writers give coherence to very long sentences (or paragraphs) is the use of parallelism
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An English Teacher's Glossary - Parody
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and in some cases it is, but most parodies intend to make fun of....
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An English Teacher's Glossary - Parallax
I find this word, which literally refers to optical illusions in space, a useful trope for lexical ambiguity, whether deliberate or accident
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An English Teacher's Glossary - Paradigm shift
This occurs when one theory is dramatically replaced by another, for example when science (Copernicus) displaced dogma (the mediaeval...
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