Meanings of three words

Analogy: A comparison between one thing and another, usually for the purpose and explanation


Semiotics: The study of signs and symbols and their use of interpretation. Is the meaning in media text, its studying how the producer tries to get that message across(signs and signifier)


Allegory:  A story, poem or picture which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning


Metonymy: The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the object meant, for example, suit for a business executive


Signifier: A physically entity that can include sounds, images or letter conveying a meaning.


Signified: An interpretation of a signifier. The idea or connotations it creates it what is signified


Connotations:An image or idea that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning . People can misunderstand due to cultural, age, gender differences and our experience. Our thought process in trying to understand the denotations need to understand and recognise symbols, metaphors and allegory's.


Denotation: The actions or process of indicating or referring to something by means of a word, symbol etc.


Sign: When a signifier involves a signified concept in someone's mind a sign has occurred. It is the relationship between a signifier and the signified is arbitrary


Paradigm: A group or related ideas that are interchangeable in a sentence or design, yet they still have the same collective meaning. For example, a panda eats shoots and leaves, this can mean the panda shoots eats then leaves.


Syntagm: A single word or element of design that when altered, can change the overall meaning