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Dissonance

Dissonance in poetry is the deliberate avoidance of assonance, i.e. patterns of repeated vowel sounds.

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[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


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Antonyms

accord, agreement, harmony



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