All 3 Uses of
dissonance
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- In the name of all dissonance, what can it be?†
Chpt 7dissonance = not going well together or conflict
- The baker's cart, with the harsh music of its bells, had a pleasant effect on Clifford, because, as few things else did, it jingled the very dissonance of yore.†
Chpt 11 *
- The final echoes of Alice Pyncheon's performance (or Clifford's, if his we must consider it) were driven away by no less vulgar a dissonance than the ringing of the shop-bell.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
a lack of harmony—either in sound or between thoughts, beliefs, or actions