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slant rhyme
[ slant rahym ]
noun
- rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
slant rhyme
noun
- prosody another term for half-rhyme
Example Sentences
The game goes too far when Max points out in an email a slant rhyme from 鈥淏ounce,鈥 a problematic show known by various titles.
Still, let鈥檚 not overlook the technical achievement: the flow of the images, one into another, the echoes that reverberate almost like slant rhymes.
鈥淥live onion pigeon鈥: Those three trochees, with the repetition of O鈥檚 and N鈥檚 and the slant rhyme of 鈥渙nion鈥 and 鈥減igeon,鈥 suggest that I was attuned to the music of language.
The sprightly meter of the text abounds with exact rhymes and slant rhymes, as well as playful consonance, assonance and alliteration, carrying along the play鈥檚 stream-of-consciousness-styled progression of ideas.
鈥淚t鈥檚 not that our childhoods and careers are the same, but they have a slant rhyme to them,鈥 Sara said.
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