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What does half rhyme mean ?
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Half rhyme is a poetic device in which assonance and consonance are used to connect words that do not technically rhyme but have similar sounds.

Half rhyme uses the similar vowel sounds and ending consonant sounds to create the illusion of a rhyme.

The clearest example of half rhyme is in the words “hard” and “road,” which share a final consonant of “d.

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