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  2. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows - Wikipedia

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    The dictionary was first considered in 2006 when Koenig was studying at Macalester College, Minnesota and attempting to write poetry.The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows was the idea he came up with that would contain all the words he needed for his poetry, including emotions that had never been linguistically described. [11]

  3. Adjective Check List - Wikipedia

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    The Adjective Check List (ACL) is a psychological assessment containing 300 adjectives used to identify common psychological traits. [1] The ACL was constructed by Harrison G. Gough and Alfred B. Heilbrun, Jr. with the goal to assess psychological traits of an individual. [ 2 ]

  4. Category:Emotions - Wikipedia

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    It should only contain pages that are Emotions or lists of Emotions, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories).

  5. Color psychology - Wikipedia

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    Research also indicates that color in video games can elicit various emotions in the player. Feelings of joy and sadness were strongly associated with the brightness, value, saturation, chroma and lightness of the game being played. The greater the color saturation was in the video game, the more strongly felt these emotions were among the players.

  6. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    adjective Any word or phrase which modifies a noun or pronoun, grammatically added to describe, identify, or quantify the related noun or pronoun. [9] [10] adverb A descriptive word used to modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb. Typically ending in -ly, adverbs answer the questions when, how, and how many times. [3] [11] aisling

  7. English adjectives - Wikipedia

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    In cases such as a best-case scenario, best-case is a nominal, not a full NP. Non-superlatives can also work in this way. The adjectives wrong and right are often incompatible with an indefinite NP (e.g., *they found a right person; here suitable would be better) but are possible in other cases (e.g., there isn't a right answer).

  8. Interjection - Wikipedia

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    An interjection is a word or expression that occurs as an utterance on its own and expresses a spontaneous feeling or reaction. [1] [2] It is a diverse category, encompassing many different parts of speech, such as exclamations (ouch!, wow!

  9. Pathos - Wikipedia

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    As such, emotions have specific causes and effects" (Book 2.1.2–3). [5] Aristotle identifies pathos as one of the three essential modes of proof by his statement that "to understand the emotions—that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited (1356a24–1356a25). [6]