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| bathos |
false or very excessive sentimentality, esp. in order to evoke pity; mawkishness. [1/2 definitions] |
| conjure up |
to produce in the mind; evoke. |
| elicit |
to call forth; evoke. [1/2 definitions] |
| evocative |
tending to or able to evoke. |
| get |
to evoke an emotional response; affect. [1/17 definitions] |
| horror |
designed or intended to evoke a feeling of horror. [1/5 definitions] |
| objective correlative |
a literary description or a series of images that objectively depict a certain emotion and evoke that same emotion in the reader or viewer. |
| program music |
instrumental music intended to evoke or depict a scene, story, event, or the like. |
| resonate |
to be filled with particular images or qualities that evoke emotions or special significance. [2/5 definitions] |
| suspicious |
tending to cause or evoke questions or doubt. [1/3 definitions] |
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