consonance
Pleasing sonic accord
Consonance is agreement or harmony between things.
Musical notes in consonance sound pleasing together, unlike dissonance.
Opinions or actions in consonance align: Her behavior was in consonance with her stated values.
In poetry and prose, consonance refers to the repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the ends of words: the repeated "ck" in "luck struck the duck."
Notes sounded simultaneously
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
- intervalDuration between two points
- triadGroup of three
- tonicInvigorating medicinal drink
overtone · fifth · octave · harmony · voicing · intonation · tuning · pitch
Matching initial consonants
- rhymeMatching terminal sounds
- repetitionAct of redoing
- sibilanceHissing quality in speech
- plosiveConsonant with blocked release
fricative · phoneme · syllable · sound · echo · euphony · cacophony · onomatopoeia
Shared position between parties
- accordHarmony between parties
- unityWholeness through cohesion
- concordMutual agreement, peaceful relations
- rapportHarmonious mutual connection
compatibility · congruence · coherence · alignment · correspondence · consistency · conformity · symmetry
chord
Notes sounded simultaneously
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
- intervalDuration between two points
- triadGroup of three
tonic · overtone · fifth · octave · harmony · voicing · intonation · tuning · pitch · timbre
alliteration
Matching initial consonants
- rhymeMatching terminal sounds
- repetitionAct of redoing
- sibilanceHissing quality in speech
plosive · fricative · phoneme · syllable · sound · echo · euphony · cacophony · onomatopoeia · stress
agreement
Shared position between parties
- accordHarmony between parties
- unityWholeness through cohesion
- concordMutual agreement, peaceful relations
rapport · compatibility · congruence · coherence · alignment · correspondence · consistency · conformity · symmetry · balance
- connectionslink, links, connect, connection, tie
- musicmusic, song, songs, singing, singer
- poetrypoem, poems, poetry, verse, verses
- in accordunity, harmony, agreement, concord, unanimity
- repetitionagain, repeat, repeated, recurring, recurrence
- literary devicesmetaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, alliteration
consonancedissonance
Lack of harmony
cacophony · discord · discordance · disharmony · harshness
consonancedissonance
Lack of harmony
discord · disagreement · conflict · incompatibility · disharmony
consonanceasymmetry
Absence of balanced form
imbalance · disproportion · irregularity · incongruity · unevenness
- consonant mutationGrammatical sound alteration
- click consonantsNon-pulmonic speech sounds
- consonant gradationSystematic sound weakening
- double consonantsRepeated letter sequences