English vocab and authors

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Code switching

Process of shifting from one linguistic code to another, depending on the social context or conversational setting.

Prescriptive grammar

Specifies how a language and its grammar rules should be used and assumes there is a 'correct' way to use it.

Descriptive grammar

Study of a language, its structure, and its rules as they are used in daily life by its speakers from all walks of life

Magical realism

Incorporating fantastical or mythical elements into otherwise realistic stories with serious themes.

Conformity

Adapting to and going along with majority behaviors

Multiculturalism

Look at the mixing of cultures

Graphic novel/Sequential art

Combining images and words in sequence to tell stories is as old as language

Existentialism

Philosophy that looks at individual choice and thought

Assimilation

Blending into larger culture (good/bad)

Standard English

The form of English widely recognised and accepted as 'correct'. It is often used in formal situations and when being polite

Relativism

Truth or morality is based on perspective, relative to each person's experience

Medium

Method or material used for art/communication

Genre

A style or category of art, music, or literature

Slaughter House Five

Kurt Vonnegut

J.D Salinger

Wrote The Catcher in the Rye and Nine Stories

CATCHER IN THE RYE'

J.D. Salinger

Marjane Satrapi

Wrote Persepolis

The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe

New Journalism

Applies novelistic techniques to non-fiction stories