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Insolent |
Showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect |
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Irreverent |
Showing a lack of respect for people or things that are genereally taken seriously |
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Lugubrious |
Looking or sounding sad and dismal |
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Patronizing |
Treat with apparent kindness that betrays a feeling of superiority |
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Pedantic |
Of or like a person who is excessivly concerned with displaying academic learning |
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Euphony |
The tendency to make phonetic changes for ease of pronunciation |
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Free verse |
Poetry that does not rhyme or have regular meter |
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Heroic couplet |
A pair of rhyming iambic pentameters much used by the poets of the 17th and 18th century |
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Hubris |
Extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character, which ultimately brings their downfall |
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Hyperbole |
A figure of speech that involves exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis |