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Cognitive poetics

Cognitive poetics is like magic maths for words that can help us understand how we feel when we read stories or poems. Just like when you hear your favorite story and it makes you feel happy or scared, cognitive poetics helps us figure out why we feel that way.

It’s like a special tool that helps us see how our brains work when we read or hear different things. It helps us understand how our mind creates images in our head, and how we use our feelings and emotions to make connections between the words that we read.

So, if you ever want to understand more about how stories and poems make you feel, cognitive poetics is there to help. It’s like the magic wand that helps us understand words better and feel all the emotions that they hold.