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Code switching

process of shifting from one linguistic code (a language or dialect) 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 ot use it.

Descriptive grammar

a 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)

New Journalism

Applies novelistic techniques to non-fiction stories

Gallows humor

Dark comedy

Absurd

Inconsistent with common sense and logic

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

J.D Salinger

- The Catcher in the Rye
- Nine Stories
- Franny and Zooey
- Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters and Seymour: and introduction
- Hapworth

Alan Moore

Watchmen

Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughter-House Five

Toni Morrison

Beloved

Truman Capote

In Cold Blood

Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis