Consonance

Entertainment / Music / Consonance: Concordant or harmonious combination of tones that provides a sense of relaxation and stability in music.
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Rhyme

Entertainment / Literature / Rhyme: Also spelled rime, rhyme is a matching similarity of sounds in two or more words, especially when their accented vowels and all succeeding consonants are identical. For instance, the word-pairs listed MORE

Pararhyme

Entertainment / Literature / Pararhyme: Wilfred Owen's term for a slant rhyme. An example appears in his poem, 'Strange Meeting,' in which Owen rhymes words like years / yours and tigress / progress. MORE

Half-Rhyme

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

Alliteration

Entertainment / Literature / Alliteration: Repeating a consonant sound in close proximity to others, or beginning several words with the same vowel sound. For instance, the phrase 'buckets of big blue berries' alliterates with the consonant b. MORE

Inexact Rhyme

Entertainment / Literature / Inexact 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 r MORE