What is half rhyme?

Half rhyme, also known as slant rhyme, refers to a type of rhyme that creates a near match between words. It can be achieved through:

  • Similar ending consonants, such as in “milk” and “walk.”
  • Shared vowel sounds, like in “home” and “bone.”

This style of rhyme adds a softer and less predictable sound to poetry.

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What is perfect rhyme?

Perfect rhyme occurs when two words have the same sound from the stressed vowel to the end of the word. For example:

  • “Floor” and “door”: The entire sound pattern matches perfectly.
  • “Latitude” and “gratitude”: These words create an exact sound repetition.

Perfect rhyme is more traditional and is often used to create a melodic or predictable effect. This contrasts with slant rhyme, which provides more flexibility and variation.

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What is an example of slant rhyme?

Slant rhyme, also known as half rhyme, occurs when two words share similar but not identical sounds. For example:

  • “Hill” and “full.” These words share the same final consonant sound but differ in their vowels.
  • “Fate” and “cave”: These share a similar “a” sound but have different final consonant sounds.

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What are the different types of rhyme?

Rhyme comes in several forms:

End rhyme: Rhymes that occur at the end of lines
Internal rhyme: Rhymes within the same line or in the middle of different lines.
Perfect rhyme: Words that match exactly in sound, like “cat” and “hat.”
Imperfect rhyme: Also known as slant rhyme, it occurs when sounds are similar but not identical, like “love” and “move.”
Eye rhyme: Words that look as if they should rhyme but do not when pronounced, such as “love” and “prove.”

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What are the different types of internal rhyme?

There are three types of internal rhyme:

  • Rhyme within the same line: Words rhyme within a single line, as in Poe’s “Annabel Lee”: “For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams/Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;” 
  • Rhyme in the middle of consecutive lines: Rhymes appear in the middle of two separate lines, like in Shel Silverstein’s “Snowball”: “I thought I’d keep it as a pet, / And let it sleep with me.”
  • Rhyme at the end and middle: A word at the end of the line rhymes with a word in the middle of the next line. For example, “The snowflakes are dancing, floating, and falling. / The church bells are calling, but I will not go.”

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What is antonomasia?

Antonomasia is when a title or epithet (descriptive phrase) takes the place of a proper noun (e.g., “The Bard” for Shakespeare). This is considered a type of metonymy, where a word is replaced by a closely associated word.

Antonomasia can also work in the opposite direction, where a proper name is substituted for a more general term (e.g., “a Scrooge” for a greedy person).

Some examples of antonomasia are:

  • “The King” for Elvis Presley
  • “The Boss” for Bruce Springsteen
  • “The Boy Who Lived” for Harry Potter
  • “The Queen of Soul” for Aretha Franklin
  • “The Big Easy” for New Orleans
  • “The Windy City” for Chicago
  • “The Dark Knight” for Batman

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