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- earthy
- realistic, rustic coarse, unrefined, instinctive, animalize
- effeminate
- soft, delicate, unmanly
- elegiac
- of, relating to, or involving mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecooverably past
- emotional
- much given to strong feelings
- epistolary
- involving letters
- erudite
- learned, scholarly
- eulogistic
- involving formal praise in speech or writing, usually in honor of someone dead
- evocative
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having the ability to call forth memories or other responces
ex:// Mayberry by Rascall Flatts - expressionistic
- stressing the subjective and symbolic is art and literature
- facetious
- amusing, but light, unserious, frivolous
- farcical
- humorous but in a light way, comedy with high exaggeration
- fatalistic
- believing that everything that happens is destined and therefore out of the hands of the individual
- flamboyant
- conspicuously bold or colorful
- fluid
- flowing smoothly
- iconoclastic
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inclined to attach cherished beliefs nad traditions
ie: green day lyrics - impressionistic
- inclined to use subjective impressions rather that objective reality
- ironic
- poignantly contrary to what was expected or intended
- irreverent
- showing disrespect for things that are usually respected or revered
- journalistic
- characterized by the kind of language used in journalism
- lyrical
- intense, spontaneous, musical
- metaphorical
- having the characteristics of melodrama in which emotions are plot are exaggerated and characterization is shallow
- mournful
- feeling or expressing grief (certain literary forms are devoted to the expression of grief, such as elegies)
- mundane
- ordinary or common, as in everyday matters ("His mind was filled with mundane matters")
- naturalistic
- tending to present things in art and literature as they appear in nature or actuality
- nostalgic
- inclined to long for or dwell on things of the past; sentimental
- objective
- uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices; presented factually
- ominous
- indicating or threatening evil or danger as dark clouds indicate that a storm is coming
- parody
- a satirical imitation of something serious, such as a comic takeoff of Romeo and Juliet (the parody must have enough elements of the origional for it to be reconized)
- persuasive
- able to get a person to do something or to agree with one by an appeal to reason or other convincing devices
- philosophical
- interested in the study of basic truths of existence and reality
- pious
- having or displaying a reverence for God and religion; sometimes used pejoratively, when the display is excessive and overly righteous
- poetical
- having the qualities of poetry, such as pleasing rhythms or images
- pompous
- displaying one's importance in an exaggerated way; sometimes this quality is found in comic characters
- prurient
- preoccupied with lewd and lustful thoughts
- psychological
- having to do with the human mind and human behavior
- puritanical
- strict or severe in matters of morality
- realistic
- inclined to represent things as they really are
- rythmic
- characterized by certain patterns, beats, or accents (as in dancing, music, poetry)
- romantic
- having feelings or thoughts of love, but when assosiated with nineteenth century literature or an such literature is suggests a style that emphasizes freedom of form, imagination, and emotion
- sardonic
- scornfully or cynically mocking; sarcastic
- satirical
- using sarcasm and irony, often humorously to expose human folly
- sensuous
- taking pleasure in things that appeal to the sences; sensual suggests a strong preoccupation with things, such as sexual pleasures
- stark
- plain, harsh, completely (as in "stark raving mad"); simple or bare, when applied to style, sometimes even bleak or grim
- subjective
- relying on one's own inner impressions, as opposed to being objective
- surrealistic
- stressing imagery and the subconscious and sometimes distorting ordinary ideas in order to arrive at artistic truths
- terse
- effectively concise, brief
- trite
- lacking power to evoke intrest through overuse or repitition; hackeneyed
- urbane
- sophisticated, socially polished
- victorian
- prudish, stuffy, and puritanical (qualities assosiated with Queen Victoria's reign)
- whimsical
- inclined to be playful, humorous or fanciful
- wordy
- using more words that necessary to say what you have to say
- abstract
- theoretical without reference to specifics
- absurd
- contrary to logic, but sometimes artistically viable
- affected
- assuming a false manner or attitude to impress others
- ambiguous
- having two or more possible meanings
- analytical
- inclined to examine things by studying their contents or parts
- anecdotal
- involving short narratives of interesting events
- angry
- resentful, enraged
- austere
- stern, strict, frugal, unadorned
- banal
- pointless and uninteresting
- baroque
- elaborate, ornimental, grotesque
- archaic
- in the style of an earlier period
- bizarre
- unusually strange or odd
- bland
- undisturbing, unemotional, uninteresting
- bombastic
- pretentious and pompous
- breezy
- quick-paced, but sometimes superficial
- childish
- immature (when applied to adults or writing)
- cinematic
- having the qualities of a motion picture
- classical
- formal, enduring, and standard, adhering to certain traditional methods
- colloquial
- characteristic or ordinary and informal conversation
- comic
- humourous, light, funny (there are many levels)
- concise
- using very few words to express a great deal
- confessional
- characterized by personal admissions of faults
- contemptious
- expressing contempt or distain
- convincing
- persuasive, believeable, pausible
- convoluted
- very complicated or involved (as in the case of sentances with many qualifiers, phrases, and clauses)
- crepuscular
- having to do with twighlight or shadowy areas (as in the darker and more hidden parts of human experience)
- cynical
- a tendency to believe that all human behavior is selfish and opportunistic
- decadent
- marked by a decay in morals, values, and artistic standards
- depressing
- sad, glooomy (without any of the redeeming qualities of true tragedy)
- detached
- disinterested, unbiased, emotionally disconnected
- discursive
- moving pointlessly from one subject to another; rambling
- dreamlike
- having the characteristics of a dream
- allusive
- containing or characterized by indirect refrences
- vexed
- distressed, annoyed, perplexed
- restrained
- held-back, deprived, checked
- audacious
- fearlessly, often recklessly daring; unrestrained by convention or propriety; insolent; origional
- giddy
- frivolous and lighthearted; flightly
- prococative
- tending to provoke or stimulate
- sentimental
- resulting from or colored by emotion rather than reason or realism
- condecending
- to deal with people in a patronizing superior manner
- contemptuous
- manifesting or feeling contempt
- zealous
- filled with or motivated by zeal; fervant
- candid
- characterized by openness and sincerity of expression; unreservedly straightforward; impartial
- didatic
- inclined to teach or moralize excessively
- satiric
- characterized by satire
- whimisical
- erratic in behavior or degree of unpredictibility
- mock-heroic
- a satirical imitation or burlesque of the heroic manner or style
- diffident
- reserved in manner; timid
- petty
- lesser, minor
- lugubrious
- mournful, dismial, gloomy, expecially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree
- bantering
- good humored, playful conversation
- flippant
- marked by diisrespectful levity or casualness; pert
- patronizing
- to treat in a condecending manner
- obscure
- not clearly understood or expressed; ambiguous or vague
- provincial
- limited in perspective; narrow and self centered
- homespun
- simple and homely; unpretentious
- picturesque
- strickingly expressive or vivid
- cultured
- a high degree of taste and refinment formed by aesthetic nad intellectual training
- idiomatic
- peculiar to or characteriistic of a given language
- slang
- language particular to a group, jargon or argot
- moralistic
- marked by a narrow minded morality
- insolent
- presumptious and insulting in manner or speech, arrogant, disrespectful, rude, impertinent
- contentious
- ioinvolving or likely to cause contention, contriversal
- turgid
- excessively ornate or complex in style or language; grandiloquent