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  2. Tone (literature) - Wikipedia

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    For example, novels with a horror theme can have previously calm, uninvolved individuals coming upon an extreme situation, such as violence involving the supernatural, growing more and more passionate in a way that turns the entire writing increasingly emotional. Official and technical documentation tends to employ a formal tone throughout the ...

  3. Emotional prosody - Wikipedia

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    Emotional prosody or affective prosody is the various paralinguistic aspects of language use that convey emotion. [1] It includes an individual's tone of voice in speech that is conveyed through changes in pitch, loudness, timbre, speech rate, and pauses.

  4. Sad clown paradox - Wikipedia

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    The sad clown paradox is the contradictory association, in performers, between comedy and mental disorders such as depression and anxiety. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] For those affected, early life is characterised by feelings of deprivation and isolation, where comedy evolves as a release for tension, removing feelings of suppressed physical rage through a ...

  5. Who's most at risk of SAD—and how to beat it - AOL

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    But for some, the worst is Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, a depression that sets in as the days grow shorter. SAD is estimated to affect 5% of the U.S. adult population—and Lyft data would ...

  6. Lament - Wikipedia

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    The purely instrumental lament is a common form in piobaireachd music for the Scottish bagpipes. "MacCrimmon's Lament" dates to the Jacobite uprising of 1745. The tune is held to have been written by Donald Ban MacCrimmon, piper to the MacLeods of Dunvegan, who supported the Hanoverians.

  7. Minor third - Wikipedia

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    The minor third is commonly used to express sadness in music, and research shows that this mirrors its use in speech, as a tone similar to a minor third is produced during sad speech. [2] It is also a quartal (based on an ascendance of one or more perfect fourths) tertian interval, as opposed to the major third's quintality.

  8. Anaphora (rhetoric) - Wikipedia

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    From your memories, sad brother, from the fitful risings and fallings I heard, From under that yellow half-moon late-risen and swollen as if with tears, From those beginning notes of yearning and love, there in the transparent mist, From the thousand responses of my heart never to cease, From the myriad thence-arous'd words,

  9. Ariana Grande 'Cannot Stop Crying, to No One's Surprise ... - AOL

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    Ariana Grande is an Academy Award nominee! Grande, 31, received her first career Oscar nomination on Thursday, Jan. 23, when she joined fellow nominees Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown ...