slant rhyme
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022
“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.
From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2021
If you’ve just learned about slant rhyme, you could read poems that exhibit it.
From Time • Sep. 11, 2015
I didn’t know slant rhyme from regular rhyme, but I was suitably impressed.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
“Like Emily Dickinson, I ain’t afraid of slant rhyme / And that’s the end of this verse; emcee’s out on a high.”
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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