Perfect Rhyme vs. Slant Rhyme
Rhyme
• A correspondence between two words that
have a similar sound. “Two words that
sound the same.”
Examples: high and sigh, fail and sail,
sneer and peer, cry and fry, seat and meat
Perfect Rhyme
• A rhyme where two or more words begin with
different consonant sounds, then have the
exact same stressed vowel sounds. Any
other following sounds are also the same.
Perfect rhymes may or may not be spelled the
same way, but they do not have to be.
Examples: rink and wink, gratitude and latitude.
Slant Rhyme
Rhyme where two words share just the vowel sound
(assonance) or share just the consonant sound
(consonance). Slant rhymes do not have to be spelled in
different ways.
Assonance Examples: heart and star, body and camaraderie
Consonance Examples: ill and well, all and soul, felt, quilt
Slant rhymes can be made by taking a two-syllable word
and manipulating it so that one of the syllables no longer
rhymes.
Examples: rumor and consumer, wonder and daughter, easily and
definitely, heart and starving.
Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall;
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses
And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!
*Perfect rhymes=bold
*Slant rhymes=underline
Emily Dickinson: “Hope is the thing with feathers”
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 chilliest land
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
Macklemore “Wings”
I was seven years old, when I got my first pair
And I stepped outside
And I was like, momma, this air bubble right here, it's gonna make me fly
I hit that court, and when I jumped, I jumped, I swear I got so high
I touched the net, momma I touched the net, this is the best day of my life
Air Max's were next,
That air bubble, that mesh
The box, the smell, the stuffin', the tread, in school
I was so cool
I knew that I couldn't crease 'em
My friends couldn't afford 'em
Four stripes on their Adidas
On the court I wasn't the best, but my kicks were like the pros
Yo, I stick out my tongue so everyone could see that logo
Nike Air Flight, but bad was so dope
And then my friend Carlos' brother got murdered for his Fours*, whoa
See he just wanted a jump shot, but they wanted his Starter coat, though
Didn't wanna get caught, from Genesee Park to Othello
You could clown for those Pro Wings, with the Velcro
Those were not tight
I was trying to fly without leaving the ground,
Cause I wanted to be like Mike, right
Wanted to be him, I wanted to be that guy, I wanted to touch the rim
I wanted to be cool, and I wanted to fit in,
I wanted what he had, America, it begins
[Chorus:]
I want to fly
Can you take me far away
Give me a star to reach for
Tell me what it takes
And I'll go so high
I'll go so high
My feet won't touch the ground
I stitch my wings
And pull the strings
I bought these dreams
That all fall down
We want what we can't have,
commodity makes us want it
So expensive, damn, I just got to
flaunt it
Got to show 'em, so exclusive,
this that new shit
A hundred dollars for a pair of shoes I would
never hoop in
Look at me, look at me, I'm a cool kid
I'm an individual, yeah, but I'm part of a
movement
My movement told me be a consumer and I
consumed it
They told me to just do it, I listened to what that
swoosh said
Look at what that swoosh did
See it consumed my thoughts
Are you stupid, don't crease 'em, just leave 'em
in that box
Strangled by these laces, laces I can barely talk
That's my air bubble and I'm lost, if it pops
We are what we wear, we wear what we are
But see I look inside the mirror and think Phil
Knight tricked us all
Will I stand for change, or stay in my box
These Nikes help me define me, but I'm trying
to take mine, off
[Chorus:]
I want to fly
Can you take me far away
Give me a star to reach for
Tell me what it takes
And I'll go so high
I'll go so high
My feet won't touch the ground
I stitch my wings
And pull the strings
I bought these dreams
That all fall down
It started out, with what I wear to school
That first day, like these are what make you cool
And this pair, this would be my parachute
So much more than just a pair of shoes
Nah, this is what I am
What I wore, this is the source of my youth
This dream that they sold to you
For a hundred dollars and some change
Consumption is in the veins
And now I see it's just another pair of shoes
Question 1
Would there be more or fewer slant rhymes
for than perfect rhymes for most words?
Why? *Silent Partner Share
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Question 2
How does the process of rhyming words
affect the reader’s understanding? *Silent
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2) Switch
3) Partner B talks and Partner A listens
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