Repertoire of elements: What is the repertoire of elements? A repertoire is a group of generic elements. For example two films may share the same repertoire however they may be seen by different audiences as there is not one film that uses all elements. 

Corpus: Where genres evolve continuously as new texts are added to the body of similar texts.

Hybridisation: two things brought together

Historic specificity: Meaning they are associated with certain time periods and tend to have been popular at a particular moment in time due to other cultural, economic or historical factors.

Repetition of sameness/variation and change: This means that genre text produces walk a fine line between repeating successful formulas with only minor variations-which may eventually bore the audience-and varying it sufficiently to still allow familiarity but also make the audience feel the product they are consuming seems fresh.

suspend disbelief: physical connection

verisimillitude: Whats likely to occur