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VOCABULARY
Inherently:
in a permanent, essential, or characteristic way.
Nonchalantly:
in a casually calm and relaxed manner.
Subjective:
based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.
Intertextuality:
the relationship between texts, especially literary ones
Vox Populi:
the opinions or beliefs of the majority.
Semiotics:
the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation.
Synesthetic:
arouses the senses.
Signifier:
a sign's physical form (such as a sound, printed word, or image) as distinct from its meaning.
Psychological:
affecting, or arising in the mind; related to the mental and emotional state of a person.
Denotation:
the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
Myopia:
the quality of being short-sighted.
Tangible:
1. perceptible by touch.
2. clear and definite; real.
Didactic:
intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.
Catacombs:
an underground cemetery consisting of a subterranean gallery with recesses for tombs, as constructed by the ancient Romans.
Carpe Diem:
used to urge someone to make the most of the present time and give little thought to the future.
Narcolepsy:
a condition characterised by an extreme tendency to fall asleep whenever in relaxing surroundings.
Maimed:
to wound or injure (a person or animal) so that part of the body is permanently damaged.
Mise En Scene:
the arrangement of the scenery, props, etc. on the stage of a theatrical production or on the set of a film.
Synedoche:
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Signified:
the meaning or idea expressed by a sign, as distinct from the physical form in which it is expressed.
Arbitrary:
based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.
Connotation:
an idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Metasymbol:
a symbol used in a metalanguage to represent an arbitrary collation in the object language.
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