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Lament and Threnody

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Difference between Lament and Threnody

Lament vs. Threnody

A lament or lamentation is a passionate expression of grief, often in music, poetry, or song form. A threnody is a wailing ode, song, hymn or poem of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.

Similarities between Lament and Threnody

Lament and Threnody have 5 things in common (in Unionpedia): Dirge, Elegy, Mourning, Poetry, Song.

Dirge

A dirge is a somber song or lament expressing mourning or grief, such as would be appropriate for performance at a funeral.

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Elegy

In English literature, an elegy is a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

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Mourning

Mourning is, in the simplest sense, grief over someone's death.

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Poetry

Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

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Song

A song, most broadly, is a single (and often standalone) work of music that is typically intended to be sung by the human voice with distinct and fixed pitches and patterns using sound and silence and a variety of forms that often include the repetition of sections.

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Lament and Threnody Comparison

Lament has 82 relations, while Threnody has 61. As they have in common 5, the Jaccard index is 3.50% = 5 / (82 + 61).

References

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