Rhyme

Question 1

polysyllable

Answer 1

(rime riche) words differ by a letter as d/evolutionary

Question 2

accelerated

Answer 2

of rhyme, occurring relatively more proximately than others in a given poem ; thus ll. 3– 4 of limericks produce metrically accelerated rhyme, and couplets are accelerated by comparison with cross or arch-rhyme. The opposite is delayed rhyme.

Question 3

alliteration

Answer 3

the repeated use of the same consonant/s in two or more proximate words.

Question 4

arch-rhyme

Answer 4

mirror symmetry, as abba

Question 5

assonance

Answer 5

the repeated use of the same vowel/s in two or more proximate
words.

Question 6

authorhyme

Answer 6

a word rhymed with itself (my coinage) ; sometimes called ‘null’ rhyme

Question 7

broken rhyme

Answer 7

a word split between lines to facilitate a rhyme, as ‘rent’/‘vent-
// ricle’.

Question 8

chain-rhyme

Answer 8

systematic carrying-over from one stanza or component unit of
form to the next of one or more rhyme-sounds, as in terza rima and Spenserian
sonnets.

Question 9

counter-semantic rhyme

Answer 9

between words with opposite or antagonistic meanings, as ‘tall/small’ or ‘fear/leer’

Question 10

cross-rhyme

Answer 10

alternating double-rhymes, as abab.

Question 11

delayed

Answer 11

of rhyme, occurring relatively more distantly than others in a given
poem ; thus the cross-rhymes of Shakespearian sonnets are delayed by comparison with the couplet. The opposite is accelerated rhyme.

Question 12

embedded rhyme

Answer 12

between a word and part of another word, as ‘pit/hospitality’.

Question 13

eye-rhyme/printers’ rhyme

Answer 13

between words which, having endings spelt identically, look as if they rhyme, but are not so pronounced, as ‘though/rough’.

Question 14

free rhyme

Answer 14

deployed without specific interlinear pattern ; free end-rhyme is also sometimes called ‘occasional’ or ‘random’ rhyme.

Question 15

full/perfect-rhyme

Answer 15

between words whose last stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical.

Question 16

half/near/slant-rhyme

Answer 16

between words whose last stressed vowel or all following sounds are identical, but not both ; includes vowel- and
pararhyme.

Question 17

homographs

Answer 17

words with different meanings spelt identically

Question 18

homophones

Answer 18

words with different meanings pronounced identically.

Question 19

imperfect rhyme

Answer 19

all kinds other than rime riche and full-rhyme.

Question 20

initial

Answer 20

of rhyme, between words beginning lines.

Question 21

internal rhyme

Answer 21

within a line, between two medial or a medial and the endword, or between medial + medial or medial + end-words in different lines ;
includes leonine rhyme.

Question 22

leonine rhyme

Answer 22

between the word preceding the cæsura and the end-word of
the same line.

Question 23

medial

Answer 23

of rhyme, between medial words in successive lines.

Question 24

mono rhyme

Answer 24

when all lines rhyme, aaaa

Question 25

mosaic rhyme

Answer 25

between a word and phrase, or between phrases.

Question 26

pararhyme

Answer 26

between words whose last stressed vowels differ but following
sounds are identical.

Question 27

rhyme

Answer 27

the coincidence of sounds.

Question 28

rhyme-scheme

Answer 28

an alphabetic method of notating rhyme-pattern in a stanza or
poem ; line-lengths may be indicated, by placing the number of beats after the
letter denoting the line.

Question 29

rime riche/identical rhym

Answer 29

between words whose sounds before and after the
last stressed vowel are identical, as rhyming homophones.

Question 30

semantic rhyme

Answer 30

between words with related or cognate meanings, as ‘jeer/
sneer’ or ‘love/give’.

Question 31

single-rhymed

Answer 31

of a quatrain or other short unit of form, having only one pair
of rhyming lines, (as abcb or abac) ; the pattern of non-rhyming lines thereby
created.

Question 32

spelling rhyme

Answer 32

between words deliberately (and usually comically) misspelt
or abbreviated to create the rhyme, as ‘hisses/Mrs’ or ‘devilry/S.O.B’.

Question 33

stressed

Answer 33

of endings, with one or more stressed hypermetrical beats ; of rhymes,
with the stressed vowel in the last beat.

Question 34

thematic

Answer 34

of rhyme, puns etc., between or involving words whose meanings
are engaged to the major theme/s of the work.

Question 35

unstressed

Answer 35

of endings, with one or more unstressed hypermetrical beats ; of rhymes, with one or more unstressed beats following the last stressed vowel.

Question 36

vowel-rhyme

Answer 36

between words whose last stressed vowels are identical but following sounds differ

Question 37

wrenched monorhyme

Answer 37

between unstressed participle endings (my coinage).