Entertainment / Literature / Slant Rhyme: Rhymes created out of words with similar but not identical sounds. In most of these instances, either the vowel segments are different while the consonants are identical, or vice versa. This type of rhyme is also called approximate rhyme, inexact rhyme, near rhyme, half rhyme, off rhyme, analyzed rhyme, or suspended rhyme. The example below comes from William Butler Yeats: Heart-smitten with emotion I sink down My heart recovering with covered eyes, Wherever I had looked I had looked upon My permanent or impermanent images. Slant rhyme has also been used for splendid intentional effect in poems such as Philip Larkins' 'Toads' and 'Toads Revisited,' and has been increasingly popular with postmodern British poets after World War II. Contrast with eye-rhyme and exact rhyme. (also called inexact rhyme)
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Rhyme Adjective Synonyms: rime, poem, poetry, verse, versification, metrical composition, song
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Slant Verb Synonyms: bias, prejudice, partiality, one-sidedness, turn, bent
Slant Adjective Synonyms: slope, incline, tilt, ramp, gradient, pitch, lean, leaning, deflection, angle, rake, cant, camber
Slant Noun Synonyms: angle, viewpoint, (point of) view, standpoint, approach, twist, idea, aspect, attitude
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Entertainment / Literature / Imperfect Rhyme: Another term for inexact rhyme or slant rhyme. MORE
Lifestyle / Poetry / Half-Rhyme: Rhyming only with the consonants in the terminal syllable(s) of a multi-syllable word. An example is 'concrete' and 'litcrit'. Also termed 'off-rhyme,' 'slant rhyme,' or apophany, in which two single- MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Near Rhyme: Another term for inexact rhyme or slant rhyme. MORE