Dissonance Definition | What is Dissonance? - PoetrySoup
Definition
[n] disagreeable sounds
[n] the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me"
[n] a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
Dissonance in poetry is the deliberate avoidance of assonance, i.e. patterns of repeated vowel sounds.
Synonyms
disagreement, dissension, noise, racket
Antonyms
accord, agreement, harmony
See Also...
auditory sensation, cacophony, conflict, discord, discordance, disharmony, disunity, inharmoniousness, sound, sound property, white noise
Related Terms
antagonism, argumentation, atonalism, atonality, cacophony, clashing, clinker, conflict, contention, contradiction, contrariety, contrast, controversy, departure, deviation, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity,
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