slant rhyme

[ slant-rahym ]

/ ˈslænt ˌraɪm /

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noun Prosody.

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

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Also called half rhyme [haf-rahym], /ˈhæf ˌraɪm/, im·per·fect rhyme [im-pur fikt rahym], /ˈɪmˌpɜr fɪkt ˌraɪm/, near rhyme [neer-rahym], /ˈnɪər ˌraɪm/, o·blique rhyme [oh-bleek-rahym, uh-bleek], /oʊˈblik ˌraɪm, əˈblik/, off rhyme [awf-rahym, of] /ˈɔf ˌraɪm, ɒf/ .

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Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
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A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
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The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
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The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.
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Aaron Paul may play a young Han Solo in the first Star Wars spin-off.
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A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
I don't exactly see how I could have been, considering I never made a rhyme in my life!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
The sixth line is in these words: “Keeping time, time, time, in a sort of Runic rhyme.”
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
It was about a trifle, some little thing that she had put into rhyme for him; how many rhymes she had written for him this summer!
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline|Jennie M. Drinkwater
The most amusing point in it is, that the author seriously intended the lines to rhyme.
Notes and Queries, Number 177, March 19, 1853|Various

British Dictionary definitions for slant rhyme

slant rhyme

noun

prosody another term for half-rhyme

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