Nobody Needs to Know
Pidgeon was originally told as a child that this was the cause of their inability to have children.
Ovarian cancer or cancer
The first sentence or two of a body paragraph that provide the central focus of the paragraph.
Topic sentence
In MLA formatting, these 2 pieces of information are need in the top, right-hand corner of each page.
Writer's last name and page number
This literary device refers to when two or more characters are having a conversation.
Dialogue
This term refers to how a person uses language to persuade or convince someone to think or feel a particular way about a particular subject.
Rhetoric
This was the name of Pidgeon's first boyfriend/girlfriend/partner.
Mikey
Sentences, phrases, or even words that are used to help improve a writer's flow.
Transitions
This page is placed after the essay itself. This page contains a list of all the sources mentioned in the essay.
Works cited page
This literary device refers to ways in which a writer can help a reader imagine seeing, smelling, hearing, tasting, or touching something in a story.
Imagery or sensory details or sensory language
This rhetorical appeal refers to using emotion to persuade an audience.
Pathos
This day was the day Pidgeon held their protest.
October 26th or Intersex Awareness Day
The breaking down of ideas into smaller more easily understood components.
Analysis
This kind of citation is used when citing a source within the essay itself.
In-text citation
This literary device refers to the pinnacle of a story, the part where everything feels most dire. It is also one of the 5 stages of plot.
Climax
This rhetorical appeal refers to using logic to persuade an audience.
Logos
This person helped Pidgeon take their first steps to accepting their intersex identity by having them say, "I'm intersex" (Pagonis 92) multiple times, louder each time, inside a pizza place.
Lynnell Stephani Long or Lynnell
Quotes, paraphrases, summaries, descriptions. Anything that the writer uses to support their claims.
Evidence
On MLA works cited pages, the source entries are placed in this order.
Alphabetical
This literary device refers to when an object, person, place, or thing represents a larger concept.
Symbolism
This rhetorical appeal refers to the use of credibility to persuade an audience.
Ethos
This is the medical terminology Pidgeon heard in their Psychology of Women 300 course that caused their "life's compass to shatter[ and open] a portal... in the multiverse" (Pagonis 79).
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome or AIS
The tying together of ideas and sources to support a new idea or concept.
Synthesis
These 2 pieces of information are needed to provide an in-text citation for a book.
Author's last name and page number.
This literary device refers to the end of the story when life for the main character resumes to the "new normal." It is also one of the 5 stages of plot.
Resolution
This rhetorical appeal refers to waiting until a pivotal or most opportune moment to say or do something to persuade an audience.
Kairos