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shivaree |
Noun
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a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple |
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skiffle |
Noun
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a style of popular music in the 1950s |
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serialism |
Noun
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20th century music that uses a definite order of notes as a thematic basis for a musical composition |
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serial music |
Noun
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20th century music that uses a definite order of notes as a thematic basis for a musical composition |
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syncopation |
Noun
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music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm |
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syncopation |
Noun
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a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat |
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syncopation |
Noun
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(phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle') |
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sonata |
Noun
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a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms |
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sonatina |
Noun
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a short and simple sonata |
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symphony |
Noun
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a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra |
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symphony |
Noun
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a large orchestra |
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screeching |
Noun
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sharp piercing cry |
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screeching |
Noun
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a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry |
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suction stop |
Noun
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a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu) |
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scansion |
Noun
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analysis of verse into metrical patterns |
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sibilant consonant |
Noun
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a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh) |
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sprung rhythm |
Noun
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a poetic rhythm that imitates the rhythm of speech |
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synesthetic metaphor |
Noun
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a metaphor that exploits a similarity between experiences in different sense modalities |
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simile |
Noun
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a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds, usually formed with 'like' or 'as' |
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synecdoche |
Noun
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substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa |
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syllepsis |
Noun
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use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc. with only one |
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spondee |
Noun
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a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables |
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speech communication |
Noun
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(language) communication by word of mouth |
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spoken communication |
Noun
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(language) communication by word of mouth |
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spoken language |
Noun
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(language) communication by word of mouth |
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shout |
Noun
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a loud utterance |
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shout |
Verb
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use foul or abusive language towards |
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shout |
Verb
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utter aloud |
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shout |
Verb
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utter in a loud voice |
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shout |
Verb
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utter a sudden loud cry |
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stress |
Noun
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the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note, especially with regard to stress or pitch |
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stress |
Noun
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(physics) force that produces strain on a physical body |
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stress |
Noun
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(psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense |
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stress |
Noun
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difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension |
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stress |
Noun
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special emphasis attached to something |
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stress |
Verb
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put stress on |
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stress |
Verb
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to stress, single out as important |
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stress |
Verb
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test the limits of |
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speech sound |
Noun
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(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language |
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sentence stress |
Noun
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the distribution of stresses within a sentence |
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speech rhythm |
Noun
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the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements |
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sesquipedality |
Noun
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using long words |
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syllabicity |
Noun
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the pattern of syllable formation in a particular language |
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schwa |
Noun
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a neutral middle vowel |
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symploce |
Noun
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repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses, i.e., simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe |
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shwa |
Noun
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a neutral middle vowel |
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succinctness |
Noun
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terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words |
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stem vowel |
Noun
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a vowel that ends a stem and precedes an inflection |
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semivowel |
Noun
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a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant |
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screaming |
Adjective
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marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter |