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When the character's speech is styled acording to his/her social station, or the occasion
Decorum
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A melancholy song for the dead
Dirge
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Grating or incompatible sounds
Dissonance
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Crude, simplistic verse which is often in a sing-song rhyme
Doggerel
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The things that support and develop the themes
Details
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A poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful, and meaningful way
Elegy
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Repetition of words/ clauses/phrases/sentences but when the meaning shifts or changes as the poem progresses
Incremental repetition
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A long narrative poem with a serious theme that typically deals with a glorious or profound subject matter
Epic
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Poetry that explores the author's personal interpretation of the world or feelings about it; emotional melodiousness
Lyric
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When the hero is stereotypically very good, the heroine is stereotypically very pure, and the villain is stereotypically horrible and evil
Melodramatic
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The protaginist's arch enemy who produces supreme or persistent difficulty for that character
Nemesis
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Treatment of the subject matter is impersonal or has an outsiders view
Objectivity
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Uses the interior or personal view of a single observer
Subjectivity
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