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angry mad poignant appealing to the senses apologetic regretful hollow empty sarcastic verbally ironic irreverent disrespectful to a higher power or diety seductive appealing to sexual desire provocative stimulating colloquial informal; conversational informative reporting facts restrained restricted contentious quarrelsome; argumentative fantasy surrealistic; unreal complacency contentment fear being scared triviality lack of importance condemning judging negatively sentimental emotional sympathetic looking upon one with favor humorous funny joyful happy objective being independent of the mind bitter moderately angry didactic teaching a moral lesson flippant talkative patronizing serving to satisfy the reader insincerely elegiac expressing sorrow or lamentation pity showing sympathy innocence purity disgust regarding with negativity warning cautioning extravagance using long, complex, or superfluous words stoic showing resistance to emotion condescending looking down upon others contemptuous quick to condemn detached separated from other thoughts; sheltered allusive referencing to other works nostalgic/nostalgia longing for home benevolent kind candid unposed; frank; honest whimsical erratic; unpredictable insipid bland; tasteless ironic figurative sardonic bitterly sarcastic satirical humorously ridiculing rebellion resisting disdain contempt reverence respect toward a higher power or deity