slant rhyme

The game goes too far when Max points out in an email a slant rhyme from “Bounce,” a problematic show known by various titles.

Still, let’s not overlook the technical achievement: the flow of the images, one into another, the echoes that reverberate almost like slant rhymes.

“Olive onion pigeon”: Those three trochees, with the repetition of O’s and N’s and the slant rhyme of “onion” and “pigeon,” suggest that I was attuned to the music of language.

The sprightly meter of the text abounds with exact rhymes and slant rhymes, as well as playful consonance, assonance and alliteration, carrying along the play’s stream-of-consciousness-styled progression of ideas.

“It’s not that our childhoods and careers are the same, but they have a slant rhyme to them,” Sara said.