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An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
Consonance: repetition of consonant sounds, most commonly within a short passage of verse. Correlative verse: matching items in two sequences. Diacope: repetition of a word or phrase with one or two intervening words. Elision: omission of one or more letters in speech, making it colloquial. Enallage: wording ignoring grammatical rules or ...
Consonance may be regarded as the counterpart to the vowel-sound repetition known as assonance. Alliteration is a special case of consonance where the repeated consonant sound is at the stressed syllable, [2] as in "few flocked to the fight" or "around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran". Alliteration is usually distinguished from other ...
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confessional literature confidant/confidante conflict connotation consistency consonance The close repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after different vowels, e.g. "slip, slop"; "creak, croak"; "black, block". [2] Compare assonance. contradiction context contrast convention coup de théâtre couplet Two lines with rhyming ends.
The opposition between consonance and dissonance can be made in different contexts: In acoustics or psychophysiology, the distinction may be objective.In modern times, it usually is based on the perception of harmonic partials of the sounds considered, to such an extent that the distinction really holds only in the case of harmonic sounds (i.e. sounds with harmonic partials).
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A simple helper template for use in television-related templates, especially in Category:Television chronology category header templates. It takes one un-named parameter — either of the words "debuts" or "endings" — and returns the antonym of that word. If the input is anything other than "debuts" or "endings", it returns nothing.