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Definition of Rhyme

Rhyme is a literary device, featured particularly in poetry, in which identical or similar concluding syllables in different words are repeated. Rhyme most often occurs at the ends of poetic lines. In addition, rhyme is principally a function of sound rather than spelling. For example, words rhyme that end with the same vowel sound but have different spellings: day, prey, weigh, bouquet . This is true for words with the same consonant ending as well: vain, rein, lane . Rhyme is therefore predominantly independent of the way words look or are spelled. Writers use rhymes as a way to create sound patterns in order to emphasize certain words and their relationships with others in an artistic manner.

An example of the emphasis of rhyme as a function of the sounds or pronunciations of words is the poem “Going to Extremes” by Richard Armour:

Shake and shake The catsup bottle None’ll come– And then a lot’ll.

Rhyme in this case provides an overall structure for Armour’s poem. By rhyming “bottle” with “lot’ll,” the poet achieves an effect that is satisfying and fulfilling for the reader, both in the poem’s form and content.

Common Examples of Rhyme Forms

There are many types of rhyme, particularly in poetry. Here are some common examples of rhyme forms:

• Perfect Rhyme : This rhyme form features two words that share the exact assonance and number of syllables, and is also known as a true rhyme. ( skylight and twilight )
• Slant Rhymes : This rhyme form features words with similar but not exact assonance and/or a number of syllables. This is also known as half rhyme or imperfect rhyme. ( grieve and  believe )
• Eye Rhymes : This rhyme form features two words that appear similar when read, but do not actually rhyme when spoken or pronounced. ( Mood   and  hood ;  move  and  dove )
• Masculine Rhyme: This rhyming form takes place between the final stressed syllables of two lines. ( compare and  repair )
• Feminine Rhyme : This rhyming form features multi-syllables in which stressed and unstressed syllables rhyme with each other, respectively. ( lazy and  crazy )
• End Rhymes: These are rhymes that occur between the final words of two consecutive lines of poetry or non-consecutive lines following a rhyme scheme in a stanza .

Tyger Tyger, burning bright , In the forest of the  Night .

Examples of Rhymes in Nursery Tales

Mother Goose and other nursery tales feature rhyme as a foundation for language acquisition, reading, and listening comprehension for children. In addition to enhancing speech and literacy skills, these rhyming poems and tales generate interest and appreciation for artistic use of language. Here are some examples of rhymes in nursery tales:

• Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet
• hickory dickory dock ; the mouse ran up the clock
• Little Jack Horner sat in a corner
• Sugar and spice and everything nice
• Jack Sprat could eat no fat
• It’s raining, it’s pouring; the old man is snoring
• hey diddle diddle , the cat and the fiddle
• Jack and Jill went up the hill
• Peter Peter, pumpkin eater
• Rain , rain go away; come again another day
• little bo peep has lost her sheep
• Miss Polly had a dolly
• Old King Cole was a merry old soul
• Simple Simon met a pieman
• Three little kittens have lost their mittens

Famous Examples of Rhymes in Common Phrases

When people use rhyming words in everyday speech, the purpose is generally to appeal to a sense of rhythm in language and use rhyming sounds to create memorable expressions. Here are some famous examples of rhymes in common phrases :

• See you later, alligator
• Too cool for school
• Make or break
• Shop ’til you drop
• Meet and greet
• Nearest and dearest
• Fender bender
• Hustle and bustle
• Handy dandy
• Study buddy
• Double trouble

Writing Rhymes

In writing, rhyme is most closely associated with poetry. This literary art form is considered quite difficult to master, and although not every poem features rhyming words or patterns, rhyme is an important literary device for poets. To develop rhyme as a writing skill, there are helpful strategies to use:

• Utilize rhyme scheme : Rhyme scheme is the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines of a poem. This order can be helpful for writers to understand rhyme and its effect. Some simple rhyme schemes to rely on for beginning writers are ABAB or ABCB. These letters indicate where the rhymes take place at the end of the lines. In ABAB, the first and third lines rhyme at the end, as do the second and fourth lines. In ABCB, just the second and fourth lines rhyme at the end.
• Explore different poetic forms : Another strategy for writers to develop a rhyming technique is to explore different forms of poetry with specific types of rhyme and rhyme schemes. These might include sonnets , limericks, and even ballads .
• Explore different types and forms of rhyme : Writers can explore different types and forms of rhyme instead of being limited to end rhymes in poetry.

How Are Rhymes Classified?

The classification of rhymes is based on the similarity of syllables in words. This occurrence of syllables divides the rhymes into different categories such as;

• Eye Rhyme : Such rhyme rhymes only when they are spelled and not when spoken. These are also called visual rhymes or sight rhymes as two words have similar spellings but different sounds such as Shean Bean and Wind/Mind.
• End Rhyme : This rhyme occurs at the end and only rhymes with the final syllable such as stair and prayer in a poem.
• Feminine Rhyme : This rhyme is of unstressed syllables whether it is one or more such as enticing or dicing.
• Half Rhyme : It applies to the end consonant syllables such as toll and tell. It is also called slant rhyme or off-rhyme.
• Identical Rhyme: It means both rhyming words have the same sound and sense.
• Internal Rhyme : It is used in a single verse in which two words rhyme with each other.
• Masculine Rhyme: It means to use stressed rhyming syllables at the end such as hells and bells and tells.
• Monorhyme : It means to use rhyme in a single stanza.

Do Poems Have to Rhyme?

The above question is often raised whether a poem must rhyme or not. Although in classical poetry, it is necessary that there should be a proper rhyme scheme due to the oral requirements of those times. It is, however, not a requirement in modern poetry. In modern poetry, poetic diction does not need a rhyme scheme. Even free verse could do the job.

Examples of Rhyme in Literature

Poetry is considered the artistic use of human language as a means of showcasing the aesthetic quality of words as equal or greater in value to their meaning and semantic content. Rhymes enhance this literary art form through repetition of sounds and formation of creative word patterns. As a literary device, rhyme elevates the reader’s experience and understanding of literature through its effect on the musical quality and impact of language.

Here are some examples of rhyme in literature and the way it enhances the value of poetry:

Example 1: Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops, Weakened by my soulful cries? Does my haughtiness offend you? Don’t you take it awful hard ’Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines Diggin’ in my own backyard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I’ve got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?

Example 2: “Hope” is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson

“Hope” is the Thing with Feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all – And sweetest – in the Gale – is heard – And sore must be the storm – That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm – I’ve heard it in the chillest land – And on the strangest Sea – Yet – never – in Extremity, It asked a crumb – of me.

In this poem, Dickinson adopts the rhyme scheme of ABCB in the first stanza, ABAB in the second stanza, and ABBB in the final stanza. The rhymes of the end lines are not perfect in the poem. However, Dickinson’s use of rhyme as a literary device enhances the meaning of the poem as a whole.

For example, when the poet rhymes “heard” and “Bird,” the sound of the words echoes the symbol of hope as a bird that perpetually sings in the soul. In addition, the rhymes “Sea” and “me” create an image of vastness, both within and without the poet. This imagery creates a sense of fragility for hope as a little bird, and for the poet as well in attempting to explain hope through poetry.

Example 3: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the Rocks, Seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow Rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing Madrigals. And I will make thee beds of Roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of Myrtle;

Synonyms of Rhyme

Rhyme does not have a similar word that could be used as a replacement, some related words are verse, ditty, limerick , jingle, verse composition, verse, rhyming, and metrical composition. It is to be kept in mind that all these words are distinct literary devices and cannot be used interchangeably for rhyme.

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Definition and Examples in Rhyme in Prose and Poetry

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The term rhyme refers to the identity or close similarity of sound between accented syllables . 

Words with similar but not identical sounds (such as mystery and mastery , or  seek and beat ) are called slant rhymes, near rhymes, or imperfect rhymes .  A verse or  prose  passage in which all the lines contain the same rhyme is called a  monorhyme .

When rhyme occurs in prose , it usually serves to emphasize words in a sentence .

Alternate Spellings: rime

Rhymes in Poetry, Stories, and Literature

Poetry, literature, and even children's stories make an excellent vehicle for using rhymes, as the following examples show.

• "Yes, the zebra is fine. But I think it's a shame , Such a marvelous beast With a cart that's so tame . The story would really be better to hear If the driver I saw were a charioteer . A gold and blue chariot's something to meet , Rumbling like thunder down Mulberry Street !" ( And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street , 1937)

Robert Frost

• "Whose woods these are I think I know , His house is in the village though . He will not see me stopping here, To watch his woods fill up with snow ." ("Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening")

S.J. Perelman

- "A veritable fusillade of smells, compounded of the pungent odors of deep fat, shark's fin, sandalwood, and open drains, now bombarded our nostrils and we found ourselves in the thriving hamlet of Chinwangtao. Every sort of object imaginable was being offered by street hawkers--basketwork, noodles, poodles, hardware, leeches, breeches, peaches, watermelon seeds, roots, boots, flutes, coats, shoats, stoats, even early vintage phonograph records." ( Westward Ha! 1948)

Thomas Campion

• "The popularitie of Rime creates as many Poets as a hot summer flies." (1602)

Willard R. Espy

- The only poet who completely solved the "orange" problem was Arthur Guiterman, who wrote in  Gaily the Troubador :

• In sparkhill buried lies that man of mark Who brought the Obelisk to Central Park, Redoubtable Commander H.H. Gorringe, Whose name supplies the long-sought rhyme for "orange." Below is a list of words difficult to rhyme. See what you can do with them . . .. Orange and lemon

( The Game of Words . Grosset & Dunlap, 1972)

Rhymes in Academics

Linguists and academicians have explained how rhymes work in a variety of formats, as these selections demonstrate.

• "The most common rap rhymes are end rhymes, those rhymes that fall on the last beat of the musical measure, signaling the end of the poetic line. Two lines in succession with end rhymes comprise a couplet, the most common rhyme scheme in old-school rap. . . . "Rhyme is the reason we can begin to hear a rhythm just by reading these lines from 50 Cent's 2007 hit 'I Get Money': 'Get a tan? I'm already Black. Rich? I'm already that / Gangsta, get a gat, hit a head in a hat / Call that a riddle rap. . . .' The first line establishes a pattern of stressed syllables in successive phrases ('al rea dy Black ,' 'al rea dy that ') that he carries over into the next two lines (' get a gat, hit a head, in a hat , r i ddle rap '). Three of these four phrases end in rhymes, one a perfect rhyme ('gat' and 'hat') and the third a slant rhyme ('rap'). The overall effect of the performance rewards our anticipation by balancing expectation and surprise in its sounds." (Adam Bradley, Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop . BasicCivitas, 2009)

Paula LaRocque

"Deliberate rhyme in prose is amusing if the subject matter is light-hearted. Accidental rhyme seems careless, the product of a writer with a tin ear. In serious or grave material, rhyming word play in general seems inappropriate and at least undignified, if not repellant. "Rewriting a passage that appears elsewhere in this book . . ., I tried, 'Technology may have freed us from conventional war, which in the past consumed the whole nation and annihilated an entire generation.' You'll see immediately what's wrong with that sentence: the unwitting rhyme of nation and generation . Deliberate rhyme for special effects can be pleasant; unwitting rhyme almost never is. Here the rhyme sets up an unintended poetic cadence--either nation or generation had to go. Nation was easier, and the rewrite finally read, 'Technology may have freed us from conventional war, which in the past consumed the whole country and annihilated an entire generation.'" ( The Book on Writing . Marion Street, 2003)

• "Test with children have found a correlation between reading difficulties and insensitivity to rhyme . The finding indicates the importance of rhyme in enabling young readers to trace analogies between written forms in English (LIGHT and FIGHT). Evidence from identical twins suggests that insensitivity to rhyme may be an inherited phonological deficit." ( Psycholinguistics: The Key Concepts . Routledge, 2004)

G.K. Chesterton

• "The romance of rhyme does not consist merely in the pleasure of a jingle, though this is a pleasure of which no man should be ashamed. Certainly most men take pleasure in it, whether or not they are ashamed of it. We see it in the older fashion of prolonging the chorus of a song with syllables like 'runty tunty' or 'tooral looral.' We see it in the similar but later fashion of discussing whether a truth is objective or subjective, or whether a reform is constructive or destructive, or whether an argument is deductive or inductive: all bearing witness to a very natural love for those nursery rhyme recurrences which make a sort of song without words, or at least without any kind of intellectual significance." ("The Romance of Rhyme," 1920)

M.H. Abrams and Geoffrey Galt Harpham

• "If the correspondence of the rhymed sounds is exact, it is called perfect rhyme , or else 'full' or 'true rhyme.' . . . Many modern poets . . . deliberately supplement perfect rhyme with imperfect rhyme (also known as 'partial rhyme,' or else as 'near rhyme,' 'slant rhyme,' or 'pararhyme'). . . . In his poem 'The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower' (1933), Dylan Thomas uses, very effectively, such distantly approximate rhymes as (with masculine endings) trees-rose, rocks-wax, tomb-worm, and (with feminine endings) flower-destroyer-fever." ( A Glossary of Literary Terms , 9th ed. Wadsworth, 2009)

Rhymes in Modern Culture

Television programs and films provide a clever showcase for the use of rhymes, including these two selections from film and one from a popular TV show demonstrate.

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Inigo Montoya: That Vizzini, he can fuss. Fezzik: Fuss, fuss. I think he likes to scream at us. Inigo Montoya: Probably he means no harm. Fezzik: He's really very short on charm. Inigo Montoya:  You have a great gift for rhyme. Fezzik: Yes, yes, some of the time. Vizzini: Enough of that. Inigo Montoya: Fezzik, are there rocks ahead? Fezzik: If there are, we all be dead. Vizzini: No more rhymes now, I mean it. Fezzik: Anybody want a peanut? Vizzini: Dyeeaahhhh! ( The Princess Bride , 1987)

Bart Simpson

• "I am not a lean mean spitting machine ." ( The Simpsons )

Adam Sandler

• "Hey, why don't I just go eat some hay , make things out of clay, lay by the bay ? I just may ! What do ya say ?" ( Happy Gilmore , 1996)
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I. What is Rhyme?

Rhymes are words whose endings match, as in “fly” and “spy.” This is one of the most common techniques in traditional poetry and music, and most people can easily identify rhymes.

II. Types of Rhyme

Perfect rhyme.

This is the “true,” classic rhyme. The sounds match exactly:

Knowledge/college

Coincide/go inside

Slant-Rhyme or Imperfect Rhyme

In a slant-rhyme, the words sound pretty similar, but may not rhyme exactly. Usually, slant-rhymes have the same vowel sounds and similar consonant sounds, but there are exceptions:

• Sweaty/Heavy
•  Inner/Banner

Identical Rhyme

When you use the same word twice, it’s an identical rhyme. Generally, audiences kind of see this as cheating, and it can make your lines sound repetitive. It’s usually best to avoid identical rhymes if you can.

III. Examples and Explanation

Red sky in the morning: sailors take warning

Red sky at night: sailors’ delight

Here’s an example of a rhyme being used as a mnemonic to help people remember information. This popular rhyme is based on the fact that a red sunrise often indicates that bad weather is coming, while a red sunset can indicate that the bad weather has passed. Of course, this isn’t always correct, but it works well enough to be worth remembering – generations of sailors have memorized this short rhyme to help them predict the weather while at sea.

Shaquille O’Neal, a man whose name is already a rhyme, starred in a 1997 movie called Steel .

Roses are red, violets are blue, something something bacon.

This is a classic setup for a rhyme, and people have heard it so many times that they are strongly expecting the rhyme to be carried through at the end. However, when strong expectations like this are violated, it can often produce laughter, as in the case of this humorous Valentine’s Day card.

IV. The Importance of Rhyme

Rhyming is very popular, and always has been, but no one is entirely sure why. One possibility, of course, is that we simply like the sound of them! Rhymes are very pleasing to the ear, and their prominence in human literature may be based on that simple fact alone.

But rhymes also have another advantage, which is that they make information easier to remember. Put yourself in the position of a storyteller in the ancient world, centuries before the invention of writing. Your job is to tell the stories passed down in your culture from generation to generation, but you can’t read them out of a book. So how can you remember all those stories? In nearly all societies, the answer has been: you make a rhyme. Thanks to the mnemonic power of rhyme, societies without writing have managed to preserve their oral traditions for generation upon generation.

Although rhymes were extremely important in traditional poetry, their importance has waned in recent decades due to the rise of free verse . Free verse does not necessarily rhyme, and is supposed to be far more open to the author’s creativity than the rhyming verse-forms of traditional poetry. In fact, rhyming is so far out of fashion in the poetry world that many poetry teachers have come to see it as nothing more than a distraction – they even go as far as to ban students from using rhymes in their poetry, at least until they have learned other skills.

Although rhymes are no longer a major part of poetry, they were essential to the poetic traditions of prior centuries, and so a full understanding of poetry cannot be achieved without an understanding of rhyme.

V. Examples in Literature

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare  As any She belied with false compare. (William Shakespeare – Sonnet 130)

The Sonnet is one of the most famous traditional poetic forms, and Shakespeare was its undisputed master. Every sonnet ends with a rhyming couplet (the last two lines), which is supposed to sum up the “point” of the poem. In this case, Shakespeare is poking fun at the way poets tend to exaggerate their lovers’ beauty, when really they should be acknowledging that love flourishes best when people are realistic about one another.

The road goes ever on and on, Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the road as gone And I must follow if I can. (J.R.R. Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings )

Tolkien loved to write poems and songs for his various characters in Middle Earth, and most of them had pretty complex rhymes. This one, though, is supposed to be a simple folk song, so its rhymes are quite simple. The only complication is a little internal slant-rhyme in the first line (road/goes).

VI. Examples in Popular Culture

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Maybe I’m lost in the grind, haunted by all I desire Forcibly caused to be normal, bonded and tossed in the fire. (El-P – Oh Hail No )

These lines end with a simple, perfect rhyme with desire/fire. In between, though, there are a host of internal slant-rhymes, such as lost/caused/tossed, haunted/bonded, and the word “grind,” which is a slant-rhyme for desire/fire.

No one’s been (like Gaston) a Kingpin (like Gaston)! No one’s got a swell cleft in his chin (like Gaston)! As a specimen yes, I’m intimidating! My what a guy, that Gaston! (Disney’s Beauty and the Beast )

The rhymes in Disney songs are often remarkably intricate. This short verse has several perfect rhymes in the first two lines (been-pin-chin), plus the identical rhyme of “Gaston” that occurs at the end of nearly every line. There’s also an incredible internal rhyme in the third line that could be easily overlooked: specimen/yes I’m in-.

VII. Similar Devices

Rhyme scheme.

Rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes in a poem or song. There are a potentially infinite number of rhyme schemes, and all of them are described using a sequence of letters such as ABAC or AABBCC. Each letter corresponds to a single line, and lines sharing the same letter are the ones that rhyme. So, ABCD would be a four-line poem in which none of the lines rhyme. AAAA would be a four-line poem in which all the lines rhyme with one another. And ABAB would be a four-line poem in which every other line rhymes. (You can find more musical concepts in musicaldictionary.com )

Internal Rhyme

Usually, rhymes occur at the end of the line. But you can also have rhymes within a line, and in these cases they’re called “internal” rhymes. Rap lyrics tend to be very dense with internal rhymes, especially the work of Eminem:

Make me king, as we move toward a new world order A normal life is boring , but superstardom’s close to post mortem

These two lines end with a slant-rhyme, but Eminem’s delivery makes the words seem closer in sound than the ordinarily would. Notice, though, how many internal rhymes (or slant-rhymes) there are in just these two lines. All the underlined words are very close to one another in sound, which contributes to the percussive quality of Eminem’s music.

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Rhymes for: speech , rhymes: 10 results.

beach, beech, breach, each, leach, preach, reach, teach  more (near rhymes)...

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beached, bead, beaks, beam, beamed, beams, beast, beasts, beat, beats, Bede, bee, beef, beefed, beefs, beep, beeps, beer, bees, bleats, bleed, bleeds, bleep, bleeped, breached, breathe, breathed, breathes, Bree, breed, breeds, breeze, breezed, Brie, briefs, cease, ceased, cheap, cheat, cheats  more...

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ABC, ABC's, absentee, acid-queen, addressee, altarpiece, amputee, amputees, anti-free, apple-green, appointee, auctioneer, bittersweet, buttercream, candy-screen, Cantonese, Cherokee, cherry-tree, chickadee, chickadees, chimney-sweep, chimpanzee, chimpanzees, Christmas-tree, commandeer, con-concrete, contravene, Copperfield, cross-appeal, DAT, death-disease, deportees, detainee, detainees, devotee, disagree, disagreed, disagrees  more...

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What rhymes with speech spitʃ speech, this page is about the various possible words that rhymes or sounds like speech . use it for writing poetry, composing lyrics for your song or coming up with rap verses..

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It's gettin hard for you to grasp my speech The class I teach

I laid down there with a tone-deaf leech Came up swinging at a figure of speech

Closer, closer, she is getting nearer; soon she'll be in reach As I enter into her spotlight, she stands lost for speech

So here´s the speech Never lookin´down Have a ball at the beach !

And now, I'd like to make a speech About the love that touches each

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In ripples on the pebbly beach , Interrupted the old man's speech .

I sought my betters: though in each Fine manners, liberal speech ,

In early times they did him impeach For demanding right of speech ,

Florence and spring-time: surely each Glad things unto the spirit saith. Why did you lead me in your speech

From realms beyond our mortal reach , The utterance of Eternal Thought Of which all nature is the speech .

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Great Language Therapy Using Rhyme Stories

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Using rhyme stories for speech and language therapy is like driving your car on cruise control.  The rhyme takes over the cadence, intonation, and length so we can focus on the content.  Communication requires expectation.  Someone says something, and we respond.  Someone asks a question that we then answer.  The rhyme naturally delivers this expectation through the rhymed syllable sound or word.

Rhyme stories can be as short and simple as Humpty Dumpty or as advanced as a full storybook poem like Room on a Broom .

Rhyme Stories are great for therapy because:

• You can find simple to complex rhymes to easily match even the most profound communication deficits.
• Many students have familiarity with rhymes.
• Rhymes are present in all cultures.
• Rhymes easily enable the production of longer utterances by employing meter and relying on repetitious phrasing.
• There are many opportunities to use past, present, future, and even conditional tense.
• Rhythms present in the rhymes create natural opportunities for whole body and kinesthetic movements.
• Phonological syllable-building is aided by clapping or tapping the beat.
• Many rhymes have moral or ethical themes embedded in their message.

How to use Rhyme Stories in Speech Therapy

The Gruffalo is a great example of the power of rhyme.  It is a full text story including location, characters, problems, and solutions. A mouse invents a monster to scare off other animals who want to eat him but winds up meeting an actual Gruffalo in the end.  Let’s use it as an example for what we can accomplish in speech therapy.

The Gruffalo / El Gruffalo

by Julia Donaldson

Rhyme Stories, Games, and Activities

Rhymes = action and most rhymes have been around for a long time.  Do an internet image search for YOUR BOOK + ACTIVITY and you will find a treasure trove of masks, games, songs, catapults, to adapt for therapy.  The sky is truly the limit.  For The Gruffalo , you can even go to www.Gruffalo.com !  Some of our favorites for the Gruffalo include:

• Anatomy charts for the Gruffalo’s amazing body parts.
• Lunch bag puppets to eat the animals with
• Animal story-sequencing activities
• terrible tusks
• terrible claws
• terrible teeth
• in his terrible jaws.

Rhyme Books for Speech Therapy

Content for this essay adapted from Literacy-Based Speech and Language Therapy Activities. Use it to create powerful language therapy using predictable books, and much, much more!

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I love this idea of using Rhyme for developing language. I would like to know if there is an EBP on this.

Hi Swapna There is a ton of research on the use of Rhyme that comes out of literacy research. Here are a couple quick reads that head in that direction: Imagination Tree ; Early Childhood News

Also, we have videos together for literacy-based intervention that are part of our live presentations but we haven’t turned them into courses yet. Check out this blog article with embedded videos of some of the practices. Also, we have 30 plus videos up on youtube now.

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Consonance Definition

What is consonance? Here's a quick and simple definition:

Consonance is a figure of speech in which the same consonant sound repeats within a group of words. An example of consonance is: "Tra ff ic f igures, on July F ourth, to be tou gh ."

Some additional key details about consonance:

• Consonance occurs when sounds , not letters, repeat. In the example above, the "f" sound is what matters, not the different letters (such as "ph") used to produce that sound.
• Consonance does not require that words with the same consonant sounds be directly next to each other. Consonance occurs so long as identical consonant sounds are relatively close together.
• The repeated consonant sounds can occur anywhere within the words—at the beginning, middle, or end, and in stressed or unstressed syllables.

Consonance Pronunciation

Here's how to pronounce consonance: kahn -suh-nince

Consonance vs. Assonance

Consonance is nearly identical to another figure of speech called assonance , with one critical difference: consonance has to do with repeated consonant sounds (i.e., non-vowel sounds), whereas assonance has to do with repeated vowel sounds.

• Consonance is repetition of consonant sounds: " Z ach snee z ed when he heard ja zz mu s ic."
• Assonance is repetition of vowel sounds: "H e y, w ai t! Don't bl am e me! N a te and J a mes are the perpetr a tors!"

Consonance vs. Alliteration

Alliteration , like consonance, is a figure of speech that involves the repetition of sounds. Consonance and alliteration differ, however, in two key respects.

• Types of repeating sounds: Consonance involves the repetition of only consonant sounds, whereas alliteration can involve the repetition of either vowel sounds or consonant sounds.
• Position of repeating sounds: The repeating sounds of consonance can occur anywhere in a word, whereas the repeating sounds of alliteration must occur either in the first syllables of words or in the stressed syllables of words.

In practical terms, these rules mean that consonance can sometimes be a form of alliteration, but isn't always.

Consonance That Is Also Alliteration

Here are two examples of consonance that are also examples of alliteration. In the first example, the consonance occurs at the beginnings of words. In the second, consonance occurs on the stressed syllables of words (note that the "d" sound in "me dall ion" and "con duct " falls on the stressed syllables.)

• B e b ack soon, B arry! B ye- b ye!
• D id D an get a me d allion? He was d oing his d uty! Oh well, con d uct him to the stage.

Consonance That Is NOT Also Alliteration

In the example below, consonance is not also alliteration, because the repeating consonant sounds almost never occur on either the first or stressed syllables (which is required for alliteration).

• Ti ff any's o ff ensive remarks disturbed Je ff rey and the other sta ff -members.

If you read this example aloud alongside the examples that are alliteration, you'll sense that, while both have repeating consonant-sounds, the examples that are also alliteration have a kind of rhythm to them that non-alliterative consonance lacks.

Consonance and Rhyme

Consonance also plays a role in rhyme . Rhyme is the repetition of identical sounds, usually (but not always) located at the ends of words. Rhymes can be either repeated consonant sounds or vowel sounds (or combinations of the two). A rhyme, then, can be consonant, but not all rhymes are consonant. Here's an example of two different instances of consonance functioning as rhyme:

There once was a teacher named Bi ll Who placed his teapot on the si ll : The students took ai m With their pens, without sha m e, Crying, "Bill! It's your pot you must fi ll !"

Lines one, two, and five end with an "L" sound, and lines three and four with an "M" sound. Both of these sound-clusters are rhymes as well as examples of consonance.

Consonance Examples

Consonance is common in all sorts of writing, including poetry and prose literature, as well as song lyrics.

Consonance Examples in Literature

In both poetry and prose, consonance can give language a musical element, as well as emphasize sounds or words that resonate with the main ideas or themes of the work. When consonance is also alliterative, it can add rhythm to the text, too.

Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" (1892)

This famous poem by Walt Whitman is an enormous catalogue of what he sees and hears and feels. The consonant repetition of the " s " sound heightens the sonic and specifically musical quality of the poem, so that the poem mimics the very activity it describes: singing.

I c elebrate my s elf, and s ing my s elf, / And what I a ss ume you shall a ss ume ...

Note that, because the "s" sounds occur either at the beginnings of words or in their stressed syllables below, this is also an example of alliteration.

Shakespeare's Hamlet

Spoken by Hamlet , the Prince of Denmark, these lines use consonance to make the language more incisive. The dark joke Hamlet is making is that his mother has committed incest by marrying his father's brother.

A l itt l e more than k in, and l ess than k ind.

Sir Phillip Sidney's "Sonnet 2"

The use of consonance below gives the lines a greater sense of cohesion and gravity, demonstrating just how dire are the circumstances being described. The speaker really believes that his heartache is like a physical wound.

Not at the first sight, nor w ith a dribbed shot, L ove gave the w ound, w hich, w hi l e I b reathe, w i ll b l eed ...

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick

In this line from chapter 9 of Moby-Dick , the " s " and " h " sounds mirror the activity of the scene—singing—by making the prose musical.

Nearly all joined in s inging thi s h ymn, which s welled h igh about the h owling of the s torm ...

Psalm 23 of the King James Version of the Bible

The repetition of the awkward " th " sound in this passage means that the prose moves at a slower pace—just try reading it out loud and you'll see that the difficulty in pronouncing the consonant sounds physically slows you. This mirrors the slowness and care with which one might walk through the "valley of the shadow of death."

Yea, th ough I walk th rough the valley of the shadow of dea th , I will fear no evil: for th ou art wi th me; th y rod and th y staff, th ey comfort me.

John Milton's Paradise Lost

In these lines from book 1 of Paradise Lost , Milton's complex use of consonance demonstrates his masterful command of the English language.

Of Man's f irs t di s obedien c e, and the f rui t Of tha t F orbidden T ree, whose mor t al t a s t Brough t Death in t o the W orld, and all our w oe, With lo ss of Eden, t ill one grea t er Man Re s t ore u s , and regain the bli ss ful S ea t ...

Consonance Examples in Music

Since consonance is a sound-based device that can make language sound musical, it should be no surprise that songwriters use it all the time in their music.

Woody Guthrie, "The Biggest Thing That Man Had Ever Done"

The American folk musician Woody Guthrie uses consonance on the " d ," " m ," and " b " sounds to create a bouncing, humorous, re-imagination of major events in world history.

I b eat the d aring Ro m an, I b eat the d aring Turk, D efeated Nero's ar m y with thirty m inutes' work, I fought the greatest leaders and I licke d the m everyone, And that was a b out the b iggest thing that m an had ever d one ...

Bob Dylan, "Subterranean Homesick Blues"

Dylan's song is a bounding, leaping, joyful composition of sounds and ideas, and the consonance of " f " and " p " and " t " and " b " sounds below shows his playfulness as he paints a scene of what might otherwise seem like desperation and displacement.

Maggie comes f leet f oo t F ace f ull-a black soo t T alkin' tha t the hea t p u t P lan t s in the b ed b ut ...

Jay-Z, "Brooklyn's Finest"

Here, the repetition of "s" sounds establishes Jay-Z's command of his art form. Note that the " s " sound in cops is softer than the almost " z " sound in "is" and "Feds," and that these two sounds are related to each other but not identical.

Peep the s tyle and the way the cop s s weat u s The number one que s tion i s , Can the Fed s get u s ?

Why Do Writers Use Consonance?

Consonance is used as an intensifier of language. This intensifying occurs in several ways.

• Consonance can make words more memorable. Alliterative consonance in particular is used very commonly in branding and advertising for exactly this reason (think of brand names like "Best Buy," "Coca Cola," and "Dunkin' Donuts").
• Consonance, like assonance, increases the sonic or "musical" quality of words in a group, making the words stand out to the reader. It also encourages the reader to spend more time looking at, sounding out, and thinking about those words.
• Because consonance encourages readers to pay more attention to language, it can have the effect of slowing down the reading process, and strengthening reading-comprehension as a result.
• Consonance is of special use to poets because it encourages repeated reading of a group of words. Poets' lines are often more dense with meaning, wordplay, and figures of speech than a typical line of prose is.
• Sometimes, consonant words can have special resonance with the meaning of the lines or sentences in which they occur. Many of the examples given above imitate , or do , the thing that is being described, rather than simply talking about it.

Other Helpful Consonance Resources

• The Wikipedia entry on Consonance: A fairly detailed explanation of consonance, with examples.
• The dictionary definition of Consonance: A short definition, with the relation of this literary concept to other fields, like music and science.

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Rime vs. Rhyme: What’s the Difference?

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Rime and rhyme are homophones . In one context, they are alternative spellings of the same word, but rime also has other meanings. Which word should you choose?

If you are an ancient mariner, you only have one real option. The rest of us need more information before we can choose rime or rhyme . I will discuss what kind of information is needed in this article.

What is the Difference Between Rime and Rhyme?

In this article, I will compare rime vs. rhyme . I will use each word in a sentence to demonstrate its proper meaning. Then, I will explain a helpful mnemonic that will make it easier to decide whether rime or rhyme is the word you should use.

When to Use Rime

• My car window was coated in an icy rime.
• CBS News reports that Buckalew was told to maintain a 10,000-foot altitude as he headed southwest over northern New Jersey. He was also warned about accumulations of ice particles, known as rime, in the clouds. – International Business Times

Historically speaking, rime was also used in the context of poetry, like in the title of the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner .

In linguistics, rime also refers to the part of the word that follows the initial phoneme. In this context, the initial phoneme is called the onset .

When to Use Rhyme

As a noun , it means a poem or the correspondence of sound in words or lines . Rhyme is typically used for creative purposes in poetry and lyrical music.

For example,

• It is very difficult to find a rhyme for the word orange.
• In a classical Elizabethan sonnet, the two ending words in each couplet must form a rhyme.
• “Here is a little rhyme I’ve composed about my wonderful wife, Lisa,” said the poet at an open mic night.
• If there was artistic angst, an intractable rhyme, a lyric that couldn’t be made to behave, you won’t hear about it from Ms. Bayer Sager. – The Wall Street Journal

As a verb, rhyme means to arrange words in such a way that their sounds correspond , or to have corresponding sounds.

• Meat and feet rhyme, and feet are made of meat.
• “You need to fix these lines, Paul,” said John, “they do not rhyme.”
• You can be a great songwriter if you rhyme your verses well.

Trick to Remember the Difference

Only linguists and speech language pathologists care about the linguistics sense of the word rime , and even some of them use rhyme instead.

Trick to remember rhyme vs. rime: Since rime is spelled with an I , which is also used to spell infrequent , you will always be able to remember that rime is only used infrequently in contemporary English.

Is it rime or rhyme? Rime and rhyme are homophones, which means they have the same pronunciation but different meanings.

In some cases, they are alternative spellings of the same word, when referring to a correspondence of sounds in words and lines of verse .

In the context of poetry, rime was historically correct, but has fallen out of favor in modern times. You should choose rhyme instead, except in specified historical contexts. Since rime is spelled with and I and used infrequently , you can remember to choose rhyme instead.

In summary,

• Choose rime in context of ice and frost.
• Choose rhyme in the context of words whose sounds match.

If you still need help remember whether to use rhyme or rime when discussing poems or songs, feel free to consult this article for additional help.