Repertoire of elements – the certain features that are expected in a genre which are often described as the ‘repertoire of elements’.

Corpus – the ‘body’, there has to be enough texts in a genre for ir to be recognised as a genre 

Hybridisation – the joining of multiple genres

Historic specificity – genres are associated with specific time periods/ may have been popular then due to cultural, economic or historical factors 

Repetition and sameness/Variation and change – means there is a fine line between media creators changing too little and the text becoming boring and changing too much where it becomes unfamiliar 

Narrative image – the way the text is organised to tell a story 

Expectations and hypotheses – the audiences previous experiences of the genre  

Suspended disbelief – when the audience buy in to the film/characters/tv narrative

Generic regime of verisimilitude – what is likely in the text