What is reduplication in the English language? What is aspect in the English language? How are tone and the meaning of words related? What is contrast in the English language? What is a morphology in the English language? What is dissonance in communication in the English language? What is ...
“Fortnight” uses enjambed lines (there's no end stop, or punctuation at the end of each line) and Scala points out the dissonance between the music's smoothness and its lyrics, like in the line “My mornings are Mondays stuck in an endless February...
14 Lachenmann expands upon the tonal aspect of material by including the rhetorical aspects of music—tension and relaxation, gesture, consonance and dissonance—or, what he would later call music’s “textual” dimension. 15 “Nothing in music stands alone. Everything becomes what it is in ...
“Quite why the word remains something of anoddityin American English is unclear.” Noun ▲ A strange or peculiar trait of a person or thing “This allusion would merely be anoddityof his poetry.” Noun ▲ A seemingly absurd or contradictory proposition that may prove to be true ...
This course is an introduction to one of the most basic questions in the philosophy of music. The course includes an historical overview, though most attention will go to contemporary, (late) 20th-century ideas about the problems and (im)possibilities to
1 : harsh or jarring sound : dissonance sense 2 specifically :harshness in the sound of words or phrases. What is cacophony in English literature? A cacophony in literature isa combination of words or phrases that sound harsh, jarring, and generally unpleasant. The opposite of cacophony is “...
The mind control methods that got them involved, are effective at keeping them in. Basic cognitive dissonance.It's basic human nature to be reluctant to admit we've made mistakes. How easy is it foranyoneto give up a deeply held belief? Pretty hard. For a cult member, leaving the cult...
It’s called cognitive dissonance! I call it the Three Monkey Syndrome….see no truth, hear no truth, speak no truth. Take the “red pill” baby…..don’t be afraid…. it will set you free, as they say. Like Sly Stone at Woodstock…..”people always need “approval”….etc, ect...
Reading is exhausting. That is because all good writing – indeed, all good art – is, to quote Jeanette Winterson, “conscious, and its effect on its audience is to stimulate consciousness”. In other words, the writer as artist seeks to bring a certain dissonance into the consciousness of...
Vincent Millay became known for her poem, “Renascence” that she entered in a poetry contest. In 1923, she won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. One of the poems that helped her win the Pulitzer Prize was “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed,” written in 1922. She was 31 years old when ...