Brave New World Flashcards
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Semiotics
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The study of communication and behaviour
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Text
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An original combination of words, the original writing before it’s printed
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Context of production
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Period of time the book was written and published in
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Context of reception
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Audience Response to the book in the time it was first published.
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Viviparous
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To carry young inside the body
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Pneumatic
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Pertaining to air, shapely beautiful, (pneuma = spirit, wind
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Apertures
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An opening, gap, hole
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Maudlin
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Overly sentimental
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Discarnate
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Not human, not in the flesh
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Truculently
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Cruelly, fiercely
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Soma
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Drug or narcotic used to relax of feel good. (Soma: body Somnus: God of sleep
