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Vocabulary

    1. Polysemic

    Capable of having several possible meanings.

    The polysemic nature of television – the factors which enable different viewers to make different senses of the same text.

    Example: When a symbol, word, or phrase means many different things, that's called polysemy. The verb "get" is a good example of polysemy.

        2. Verisimilitude

    Verisimilitude is the quality of seeming to be true or real.

    [formal]

    At the required level of visual verisimilitude, computer animation is costly.

    Example: Gulliver Travels (By Jonathan Swift)


    1. Iconography

    The iconography of a group of people consists of the symbols, pictures, and objects which represent their ideas and way of life.

    ...the iconography of revolutionary posters. [+ of]

    ...religious iconography.


    Example: Countries have symbols for their country including birds, animals, and plants.

    1. Semiotics

    Semiotics is the academic study of the relationship of language and other signs to their meanings.


    Example: Common examples of semiotics include traffic signs, emojis, etc.


    1. Idiosyncratic

    Relating to idiosyncrasy; peculiar or individual.

    Example: "She emerged as one of the great, idiosyncratic talents of the nineties"

    1. Idiosyncrasy

    A mode of behaviour or way of thought peculiar to an individual.
    Example: "One of his little idiosyncrasies was always preferring to be in the car first"

    1. Homogeneous
    Of the same kind; alike.
    Example: "If all jobs and workers were homogeneous.”

    1. Intertextuality
    1. The shaping of a text's meaning by another text.
    2. For a type of media to pay homage (make a reference) to another media text.




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