Dissonance

Dissonance has several meanings, all related to conflict or incongruity:

Dissonance in poetry is the deliberate avoidance of assonance, i.e. patterns of repeated vowel sounds. Dissonance in poetry is similar to cacophony and the opposite of euphony.

Other meanings of dissonance are:


 * Consonance and dissonance in music are properties of an interval or chord
 * Cognitive dissonance is a state of mental conflict
 * Dissonance (album), a 2009 album by Enuff Z'Nuff

See also