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Exhortatory |
An address or communication urging someone to do something |
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Farcical |
Of or resembling a farce espwcially because of absurd or ridiculous aspects |
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Histrionic |
Overly theatrical or melodramatic in character or style |
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Jocund |
Cheerful and light-hearted |
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Irascible |
Having or showing a tendency to be easily angered |
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Parallelism |
The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same |
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Refrain |
A poetic device that repeats at regular intervals in different stanzas |
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Satire |
A technique to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or society |
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Sestet |
A part of a poem containing six lines, it can be a whole poem or stanza |
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Synecdoche |
A literary device in which part of something represents the whole, or is used to reperesent a part |
