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slant rhyme

[ slant rahym ]

noun

Prosody.
  1. rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.


slant rhyme

noun

  1. prosody another term for half-rhyme
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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The game goes too far when Max points out in an email a slant rhyme from “Bounce,” a problematic show known by various titles.

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Still, let’s not overlook the technical achievement: the flow of the images, one into another, the echoes that reverberate almost like slant rhymes.

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“Olive onion pigeon”: Those three trochees, with the repetition of O’s and N’s and the slant rhyme of “onion” and “pigeon,” suggest that I was attuned to the music of language.

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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’s stream-of-consciousness-styled progression of ideas.

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“It’s not that our childhoods and careers are the same, but they have a slant rhyme to them,” Sara said.

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