rhyme
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1.1
- noun
- /raɪm/
- 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
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7.5
A rhyme where the last two syllables of each word sound the same
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7.1
A repetition of similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables, as in day and say
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8.4
A rhyme where the last syllable has the main stressed vowel sound
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7.6
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
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7.1
A repetition of similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables, as in day and say
- Literature
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8.6
The same first sound at the start of important words in a line of poetry
- Literature
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7.6
A repeat of consonant sounds at the ends of words to make lines sound similar
- Literature
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7.4
Repeating the same consonant sound at the start of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
- Literature
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6.0
Repetition of the same sound at the start of stressed words or syllables in a line of verse
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.