rhyme
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1.1
- noun
- /raɪm/
:
rima
- We're not all great with, you know, arranging words and phrases and metaphors and rhymes, you know, into poetry.
- rhyme and alliteration
- slant rhyme
- clunky rhymes
Examples
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Slant rhymes are rhymes that have in common some, but not all, of their final sounds.
Academic text (2009) -
# Think of a subject and then make a rhyme about it, really.
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These are all words that rhyme bad, sad, mad.
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Not a lot rhymes with TV.
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We find, for example, an instance of a nearly shared rhyme sound between two different stanzas and speakers.
Academic text (2005) -
Initially, children demonstrate their phonological skills in reading by expressing rhyme and alliteration.
Academic text (2012) -
Price, not normally known for his rap, used rhymes and wordplay to welcome Miranda.
Academic text (2016) -
The Second Coming is more inclined to bust a rhyme about "gettin' jiggy with it."
Academic text (2005) -
In the poem, the words rhyme beautifully, creating a melodic flow.
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He challenged his friend to come up with a creative rhyme for the word 'cat'.
Synonyms
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7.3
A pair of words in the same line of a poem that end with the same sound
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4.8
The vowel sound and the sound after it at the ends of lines match exactly
A rhyme where the last syllable has the main stressed vowel sound
A rhyme where the last two syllables of each word sound the same
A repetition of similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables, as in day and say
A repeat of consonant sounds at the ends of words to make lines sound similar
Idioms
- Informal
Saying a rhyme to blame someone shows you are the guilty person
Compounds
- Literature
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7.3
A pair of words in the same line of a poem that end with the same sound
- Literature
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4.8
The vowel sound and the sound after it at the ends of lines match exactly
- Literature
Repetition of the same sound at the start of stressed words or syllables in a line of verse
- Literature
A repeat of consonant sounds at the ends of words to make lines sound similar
- Literature
Repeating the same consonant sound at the start of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
- Literature
A repetition of similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables, as in day and say
How Exact
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rhyme comes from the Old English rīm, meaning 'verse' or 'pattern', and the idea of a pattern of sounds. That is why a rhyme can be a word or phrase that shares the same ending sound as another word.