| A | B |
|---|
| Journalistic | Characterized by the kind of language used in journalism |
| Lyrical | Intense, spontaneous, musical |
| Metaphorical | Having characterics of melodrama in which emotions and plot are exaggerated and characterization is shallow |
| Mournful | Feeling or expressing grief |
| Mundane | Ordinary or common, as in everyday matters |
| Naturalistic | Tending to present things in art and literature as they appear in nature |
| Nostalgic | Inclined to long for or dwell on things of the past; sentimental |
| Objective | Uninfluenced by personal feelings, Seeing things from the outside, not subjectively |
| Ominous | Indicating or threatening evil or danger as dark clouds indicate that storm is coming |
| Parody | A satirical imitation of something erious, such as a comic takeoff of Romeo and Juliet |
| Persuasice | 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 existance and reality |
| Pious | Having to do with reverence for God |
| Poetical | Having qualities of poetry such as pleasing rhythms or images |
| Pompous | Displaying one's importance in an exaggerated way |
| primitive | Simple and crude |
| Prurient | Preoccupied with lewd and lustful thoughts |
| Physchological | Having to do with the human mind and human behavior |
| Puritanical | Strict or sever in matters of morality |
| Realistic | Inclined to represent things as they really are |
| Rhythmic | Characterized by certain patterns, beats or accents |
| Romantic | Having feelings or thoughts of love, but when ass |
| Sardonic | Mocking, sarcastic |
| Satirical | Using sarcasm and irony often humorously to expose human folly |
| Sensuous | Taking pleasure in things that appeal to the senses |
| Stark | Plain, harsh completelySimple or bare when applied to Style |
| Subjective | Relying on one's inner impressions, as opposed to being objective |
| Surrealistic | Stressing imagery and the suconscious and sometimes distorting ordinary ideas in order to arrive at artistic truths |
| Terse | Effectively Concise, brief |
| Trite | Stale, worn out as in expression |
| Urbane | Sophisticated, socially polished |
| Victorian | Prudish,stuffy, and puritanical |
| Whimsical | Inclined to be playful, humorous, or fanciful |
| Wordy | using more words then necessary to communicate |
