Rick Altman equates a genre's visual conventions with a sentence's _________________; just as we know that some words don't logically work together,we also sense that a menacing castle doesn't fit in the Western.

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Semantic refers to the meaning of language, and in this context, it refers to the meaning conveyed by the visual conventions of a genre. Just as certain words don't fit together logically, certain visual conventions don't fit within certain genres.

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