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(Click for frequent words.) 74 metaphors 69 analogy 67 allegory 66 simile 63 metaphorical 61 apt metaphor 60 metaphoric 59 parable 58 analogies 56 leitmotif 55 motif 54 metanarrative 54 synonym 54 cliché 53 symbolism 51 objective correlative 51 trope 51 allegories 51 conceit 51 cliche 50 illustration 50 Metaphorically 50 recurring motif 50 phrase 49 subtext 49 metaphorically 49 neologism 49 metonymy 49 idiom 49 signifier 49 euphemism 48 cautionary tale 48 evocation 48 paean 48 apt analogy 48 synecdoche 48 fable 48 juxtaposition 48 ode 48 abstract noun 48 allusions 48 shorthand 48 touchstone 48 overdetermined 48 narrative 47 allegorically 47 Zen koan 47 iconography 47 antipode 47 hackneyed cliché 47 microcosm 47 epigraph 47 epigram 46 archetype 46 apt description 46 allegorical 46 metonym 46 excrescence 46 literal 46 subtextual 46 Mobius strip 46 metaphorical meanings 46 fantasia 46 literary allusion 45 pathetic fallacy 45 adjective 45 similes 45 ironies 45 locution 45 unsatisfyingly 45 limn 45 cultural signifiers 45 metafiction 45 aphorism 45 clichés 45 depiction 45 embodiment 45 weltanschauung 45 phantasmagoria 45 allusion 45 theme 45 limitlessness 44 hyperrealism 44 Sophoclean 44 reframes 44 acedia 44 sordidly 44 allegorical tale 44 signifiers 44 ephemerality 44 monumentalism 44 word advisedly 44 Rorschach test 44 counterexample 44 unifying theme 44 mot juste 44 symbolized 44 grand guignol 44 inescapability 44 irony 44 literalized 44 symbolization 44 reductively 44 anology 44 koans 44 intertextuality 44 apologia 44 historical analogies 44 personification 44 catharsis 44 colloquialism 44 paradox 44 muse 44 eternal verity 43 philosophical musing 43 trite 43 elegy 43 descriptive phrase 43 macrocosmic 43 counterpoint 43 Rorschach blot 43 springboard 43 onanism 43 Biblical allusions 43 tropes 43 coda 43 pragmatics 43 hyperreality 43 cautionary fable 43 similes metaphors 43 dialectic 43 non sequitor 43 Melville Moby Dick 43 postmodern irony 43 unknowability 43 clichs 43 Herzogian 43 paraphrase 43 wishfulness 43 referents 43 le mot juste 43 conceptualizations 43 Freudian psychology 43 meta narrative 43 referentiality 43 symbolizes 43 homo eroticism 43 unbearable lightness 43 excuse 43 endlessness 42 clichéd 42 delicious ironies 42 phantasm 42 portent 42 epitaph 42 redemptive qualities 42 phallic symbol 42 perjorative 42 illogic 42 philosophizing 42 medias res 42 banality 42 duality 42 idée fixe 42 poetic musings 42 literalness 42 evocative imagery 42 analogizing 42 throughline 42 macrocosm 42 telos 42 hi falutin 42 deracination 42 narratives 42 anecdote 42 phraseology 42 cliches 42 tritely 42 performativity 42 belabors 42 darkling 42 thuddingly 42 absurdity 42 gimcrackery 42 antidote 42 foreshadowing 42 clichŽ 42 Metaphor 42 flâneur 42 denotative 42 grotesquery 42 leitmotiv 42 disquietingly 42 emblematic 42 memento mori 42 jism 42 Whitmanesque 42 Edward Hopper Nighthawks 42 postmodern pastiche 42 poetically 42 madonna whore 42 Homeric epic 42 wonderfully descriptive 42 postmodern 42 mindless repetition 42 banal 42 absurdist satire 42 reductio ad absurdum 42 morality tale 42 homoerotic subtext 42 contemporary resonances 42 symbolize 42 imagining 42 sheer strangeness 42 hackneyed phrase 42 Hitchcockian suspense 42 auteurism 42 nexis 42 bleakly funny 42 reminder 42 Tolkien esque 42 mythmaking 42 paradigmatic 42 abjection 42 Emersonian 42 geometric patterning 41 parlor trick 41 literal depiction 41 Beckettian 41 hellishness 41 biblical allusions 41 mythology 41 attitudinizing 41 connotations 41 anthropomorphism 41 neatly encapsulates 41 poetic 41 overused cliché 41 rumination 41 famous aphorism 41 hieroglyph 41 metafictional 41 ineloquent 41 clichÈ 41 monologuing 41 reification 41 backdrop 41 timeless fable 41 tale 41 literal mindedness 41 euphemisms 41 template 41 hackneyed 41 dystopian vision 41 noun 41 algebraic formula 41 ressentiment 41 biblical parable 41 prefiguring 41 Pelevin 41 happenstances 41 ideogram 41 simplicities 41 dualities 41 similitude 41 platitude 41 leitmotifs 41 Fogged in. 41 intransitive verb 41 commonplaces 41 loopily 41 curiousness 41 archaism 41 declarative sentence 41 epithet 41 unintended irony 41 unpoetic 41 determinist 41 pulp noir 41 poetic prose 41 example 41 ungraspable 41 semiotic 41 truisms 41 kaleidoscopically 41 everydayness 41 surrealism 41 parables 41 hyperreal 41 distancing oneself 41 disjointedly 41 moral repugnance 41 Salem witch hunts 41 mytho 41 psychological underpinnings 41 analogizes 41 wittedness 41 nonlinear storytelling 41 lyric 41 performative aspect 41 clich d 41 feminist critique 41 satire 41 Wordsworthian 41 plural pronoun 40 poetic imagery 40 unnamable 40 motifs 40 teachable moment 40 quiddity 40 Weltanschauung 40 cliched 40 incubus 40 verb 40 muses 40 evoke emotion 40 paradoxes 40 Conradian 40 intellectualising 40 psychodramas 40 Slyly 40 smug complacency 40 kitchen sink realism 40 emotional catharsis 40 Westernism 40 wearyingly 40 participle 40 avant la lettre 40 bricolage 40 rhetorical overkill 40 psychoanalytic theories 40 antecedent 40 linguistic acrobatics 40 Orwellian doublespeak 40 manifestation 40 Dantean 40 ruminates 40 effluvium 40 existential 40 slang 40 formlessness 40 meme 40 archaisms 40 nostalgic longing 40 pastiche 40 avant gardism 40 soaringly 40 funhouse mirror 40 stark realism 40 coping mechanism 40 skin crawlingly 40 poesy 40 murderousness 40 mordantly 40 Cameronism 40 lyric poetry 40 pluperfect 40 Pure unadulterated 40 catharses 40 escapist fantasy 40 tableau 40 Metaphors 40 Manichean struggle 40 repressed sexuality 40 symbol 40 inextricable 40 spiritual transcendence 40 mythmakers 40 sheer silliness 40 Escher esque 40 triangulator 40 themes 40 punctuation mark 40 ingeniously 40 metaphysic 40 philosophical underpinning 40 Euphemism 40 winkingly 40 schoolyard taunt 40 dualisms 40 totem 40 Strangelovian 40 dimly perceived 40 clichd 40 escapism 40 Platonic ideal 40 tragicomic 40 divining rod 40 illusional 40 excursus 40 ticktock 40 Zen koans 40 Orwellian newspeak 40 conflation 40 sardonically funny 40 child's eye view 40 mawkishly 40 soullessness 40 darkest impulses 40 endless fascination 40 dualism 40 chthonic 40 gestalt 40 neo romanticism 40 lodestars 40 millenarianism 40 meanings 40 knight errant 40 sendup 40 adumbrate 40 roundelay 40 disquisition 40 mimesis 40 polysyllabic words 40 veers perilously close 40 originary 40 Revisionist history 40 lonesomeness 40 portmanteau word 40 orientalism 40 evanescence 40 Merleau Ponty 40 vulgarization 40 subversiveness 40 Shakespearean drama 40 fallenness 40 inanity 40 oneiric 40 dialectics 40 vitalism 40 hoary cliché 40 narrator 40 apropos 40 joke 39 perfectly encapsulates 39 Euphemisms 39 colloquial expression 39 George Orwell dystopian 39 gone terribly awry 39 prefigures 39 darker undercurrents 39 comically absurd 39 karmic justice 39 chiasmus 39 syllogism 39 cockney slang 39 purposelessness 39 apotheosis 39 archetypal 39 aptly 39 insubstantiality 39 Trivializing 39 forbearer 39 nowness 39 sentimentalizes 39 racisms 39 recurring motifs 39 Magical realism 39 l' amour fou 39 banally 39 humor pathos 39 illusionism 39 epoch defining 39 voiceover narration 39 lesson 39 incomprehensibility 39 overthought 39 figurative 39 pluralization 39 toweringly 39 Existentialism 39 philosopher Heraclitus 39 disjunction between 39 phallic imagery 39 graspable 39 schizophrenically 39 phantasms 39 virgin whore 39 open endedness 39 grandiloquence 39 morbidly funny 39 dichotomy 39 Cinematically 39 tu quoque 39 postcolonial theory 39 Marxist dialectic 39 cogito 39 philosophical 39 pretzel logic 39 Shakespearean sonnet 39 inspiration 39 conjuration 39 ironic juxtaposition 39 self mythologising 39 pea brains 39 dictionary definition 39 portentous 39 anthropomorphic creatures 39 Ballardian 39 belaboring 39 queerly 39 mythologise 39 literary allusions 39 gerund 39 ambiguousness 39 grotesqueries 39 Hollywoodization 39 connotation 39 universals 39 sordidness 39 passive aggressiveness 39 utterly unsentimental 39 wordplays 39 corporeality 39 mesmerism 39 intransitive 39 cartoonishness 39 inconsequentiality 39 phallic symbolism 39 loserdom 39 absurdism 39 funhouse mirrors 39 Oedipus myth 39 erotics 39 symbolisms 39 dandyism 39 ennobles 39 Freudian slips 39 mystical realm 39 philosopher Hannah Arendt 39 movable feast 39 anecdotage 39 dreamworld 39 authorial voice 39 Joyce Ulysses 39 Huler 39 truism 39 idiocracy 39 alludes 39 multi dimensionality 39 slyer 39 swooningly 39 gnosticism 39 Rube Goldberg contraption 39 doubleness 39 Absurdist 39 excremental 39 romantic fable 39 Cloud Cuckooland 39 mythic 39 dystopian visions 39 ghastliness 39 psychologizing 39 infinitely malleable 39 casuistry 39 punchline 39 historicizing 39 dichotomies 39 nebulousness 39 ludic 39 philo Semitism 39 Euclidian geometry 39 simulacrum 39 besetting sin 39 singular noun 39 inextricably entangled 39 deux ex machina 39 faggotry 39 doublethink 39 hoary cliche 39 blackface minstrelsy 39 transcendently 39 crutch 39 sophism 39 transcendentalism 39 psychogeography 39 intracacies 39 easel painting 39 sonnet 39 epiphanic moment 39 profundities 39 attraction repulsion 39 Daliesque 39 conjures images 39 infinitude 39 poeticism 39 eternal truths 39 pun 39 vagary 39 spareness 39 threnody 39 bone crunchingly 39 Borgesian 39 alliterations 39 artspeak 39 gobbledy gook 39 Seinfeld ian 39 Utopianism 39 utopianism 39 Zardoz 39 mindscapes 39 Wildean 39 Homo economicus 39 Plato cave 38 overly wordy 38 antics ensue 38 magical fairyland 38 exoticness 38 metaphors similes 38 Clausewitzian 38 hybridity 38 infernally 38 artlessness 38 poet Homero Aridjis 38 Felliniesque 38 semantics 38 contrivance 38 unreliable narrator 38 storying 38 weepy melodrama 38 inconstancy 38 intellectualised 38 impermanence 38 malapropism 38 unabashedly sentimental 38 utopian socialism 38 archetypes 38 grandiose notions 38 hopelessly naïve 38 unpardonably 38 visceral immediacy 38 solipsism 38 surreal juxtaposition 38 impressionistically 38 anomic 38 pathos 38 possessive pronoun 38 ethnocentricity 38 indirectness 38 succinctly captures 38 inchoate rage 38 foppery 38 vernacular 38 rivetingly 38 peculiarly 38 fascinations 38 biblical allegory 38 heretical notion 38 reductio ad 38 parody 38 tautologies 38 plot contrivance 38 musing 38 bitingly satirical 38 po mo 38 intertextual 38 Hmmm. 38 psychodrama 38 paramecium 38 intellectualizing 38 buncombe 38 mundaneness 38 Unrequited love 38 profundity 38 impressionistic portrait 38 genre tropes 38 circumlocutions 38 Wilsonianism 38 collective nouns 38 hallucination 38 framings 38 deathwish 38 emblematically 38 fulcrum 38 Escapism 38 etymology 38 finiteness 38 unrelievedly 38 boundlessness 38 salient characteristic 38 existential dilemma 38 malignant narcissism 38 subtexts 38 Hegelian dialectic 38 harbinger 38 Un Lun Dun 38 Orpheus myth 38 biblical allusion 38 Deus ex machina 38 gooderism 38 romanticism 38 corny 38 simple declarative sentences 38 fleeting pleasures 38 superficial trappings 38 imperial hubris 38 huckstering 38 structuralist 38 inexorable logic 38 descriptor 38 onomatopoetic 38 purely utilitarian 38 idealized notions 38 sophistries 38 nonliteral 38 archetypally 38 nameless narrator 38 blackly 38 Elizabethan Age 38 quintessentially 38 overused clichés 38 strangely comforting 38 self referentiality 38 bittersweet aftertaste 38 recurrent motif 38 pure escapist 38 apocolyptic 38 existential despair 38 sociological experiment 38 unnaturalness 38 existential loneliness 38 romanticization 38 utopian idealism 38 placelessness 38 Duchampian 38 triviality 38 immortally 38 descibe 38 avoids sentimentality 38 diegetic 38 catchphrase 38 Henri Bergson 38 fleetingness 38 barrenness 38 remorselessness 38 mushy gushy 38 themeless 38 unadorned prose 38 puns 38 woman's 38 intersectionality 38 argot 38 scansion 38 idiomatic phrase 38 redemptive 38 closest approximation 38 colloquial phrase 38 escapist entertainment 38 animalism 38 forboding 38 mordant humor 38 bookends 38 sestina 38 perfectibility 38 surrealist imagery 38 vomitorium 38 pseudo intellectualism 38 stylization 38 lyrical imagery 38 Merriam Webster dictionary defines 38 ditty 38 Beckian 38 righteously angry 38 utter randomness 38 enervation 38 Roman orator Cicero 38 glittering generality 38 onomatopoeia 38 painterly abstraction 38 Weberian 38 unabashed sentimentality 38 masturbatory fantasy 38 Tar Baby 38 rawest form 38 Collectivism 38 omniscient narrator 38 Chinese proverb 38 hero ine 38 context 38 Tractatus 38 faddishness 38 critic Chuck Klosterman 38 playwright Aeschylus 38 richly imaginative 38 romanticises 38 wrongheadedness 38 tenaciously clinging 38 Rory O'Shea 38 vivid imagery 38 catchword 38 undergoes metamorphosis 38 bewitchment 38 existentialist philosophy 38 hobbyhorse 38 paraphrase Shakespeare 38 incommensurability 38 isjust 38 noun adjective 38 philosophising 38 magic negro 38 crassly 38 defining characteristic 38 Pinter esque 38 Svankmajer 38 somewhere inbetween 38 magical incantations 38 meta narratives 38 grandiose fantasies 38 supernatural creature 38 nomenclature 38 pantomimic 38 imagines 38 McCainism 38 naive idealism 38 joylessly 38 imagery 38 phantasy 38 philia 38 sublime silliness 38 charmingly offbeat 38 intergender 38 launching pad 38 bumper sticker slogan 38 synonyms 38 pointlessness 38 abstraction 38 bon mot 38 maudlin sentimentality 38 homonym 38 stylistic tics 38 connective thread 38 evokes 38 jargony 38 gut bustingly funny 38 reified 38 ruefulness 38 substitutes Gabler 38 euphemistic 38 neologisms 38 hallowing 38 forebodes 38 paradigm 38 spatiality 38 allusiveness 38 folly 38 deftly avoids 38 Cloward Piven strategy 38 connotative 38 verbal tic 38 apocalyptically 38 irreconcilability 38 existentialist 38 wellsprings 38 philosophical conundrums 38 heathenism 38 Nature abhors 38 foreshadowings 37 conceptual framework 37 overweening pride 37 antonym 37 declinist 37 sentimentalities 37 Arabian Nights tales 37 shatteringly 37 idealization 37 technological determinism 37 Plotwise 37 eponym 37 scrying 37 purblind 37 essence 37 waxing poetically 37 muck raker 37 Canadianness 37 literary pretensions 37 epiphanic 37 transmogrification 37 Grimms fairy tale 37 autobiographically 37 ingeniously constructed 37 archetypical 37 contraries 37 rhetorical sleight 37 anachronism 37 slackerdom 37 prepositional 37 plotline 37 queerness 37 famous dictum 37 odd juxtaposition 37 spelunk 37 queasily 37 bottomless depths 37 Inescapably 37 reifying 37 melting pot metaphor 37 vade 37 treatise 37 folie à deux 37 aural wallpaper 37 reductive 37 Bildungsroman 37 primer 37 whirligig 37 tautology 37 thematic threads 37 proverb 37 overfamiliar 37 strawman argument 37 Naivete 37 unrelentingly grim 37 triteness 37 Kafka esque nightmare 37 verbing 37 mytho poetic 37 meta ness 37 inescapable 37 liminality 37 fictionalisation 37 faddism 37 classical antiquity 37 primordially 37 trippiness 37 tad melodramatic 37 visual puns 37 superficiality 37 embroidered sampler 37 descending spiral 37 Nietzschean 37 Yeats poem 37 existentialists 37 misanthropy 37 omnipotent omnipresent 37 evoking 37 apt descriptor 37 diabolism 37 self reflexivity 37 counternarrative 37 inductive logic 37 riff 37 sociological theories 37 Krafft Ebing 37 sociological treatise 37 segue 37 significations 37 tragicomedy 37 idealisation 37 broad brushstroke 37 raincloud 37 inescapably 37 repressed desires 37 shaped pinatas 37 epicycles 37 Self loathing 37 hokiness 37 palimpsest 37 hoariest 37 instrumentalism 37 Hazel Motes 37 Hoppenstand 37 Carole Whang Schutter 37 meta textual 37 apercus 37 existential ennui 37 Swiftian satire 37 symbols 37 commodity fetishism 37 Satan incarnate 37 depthless 37 unmitigated catastrophe 37 idealising 37 Wildean wit 37 deus ex 37 bluffer guide 37 fetishising 37 logic 37 negritude 37 horizontality 37 genesis 37 advisedly 37 demiurge 37 connoting 37 strangeness 37 noble savage 37 prelude 37 abstractness 37 Gesamtkunstwerk 37 Socialism Marxism 37 medieval chivalry 37 ironic detachment 37 Nihilism 37 poignantly 37 polymorphously perverse 37 idiosyncracy 37 eternal verities 37 worlds colliding 37 Grimm fairytales 37 conditioned reflex 37 koan

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