Someone told me that tinkling and jingling rhyme. Is that true, even with the "K" in tinkling? If this is so, then does epic and angelic rhyme? Would qualifies words to rhyme?
2006-12-07 14:36:28 · 10 answers · asked by Hurricanehunter 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
An English teacher told me. Of course, I am in California...
2006-12-07 14:42:48 · update #1
"Tinkling" and "jingling" absolutely do not rhyme.
Inkling and sprinkling rhyme with tinkling.
Nothing rhymes with jingling.
I used to teach English.
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2006-12-07 14:39:58 · answer #1 · answered by Serendipity 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you study poetry and songwriting, you will come across terms for all kinds of rhymes. There are true rhymes, approximate rhymes, weak rhymes, strong rhymes and false rhymes. The texts will give you all of the definitions, but what is important is two-fold.
First, you must decide how picky you are, how much of a perfecionist you are in making the rhymes perfect.
Writers like Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin went to great lengths to make their rhymes not only perfect for the end rhymes, but with perfect internal rhymes as well.
Secondly, you have to decide how much meaning you are willing to sacrifice for the sake of perfect rhyming.
Songwriters like Bruce Springsteen try their best to make the rhymes work, but they would rather use approximate rhymes or no rhyme at all than lose the meaning and flavor of their songs.
It is a personal choice.
Tinkling and jingling is a good example of two words which do not rhyme, but they are enough alike that they sound good together or playing off of each other. They are also so close in meaning that using them together in a song makes sense.
But maybe the bells make you tingle, and that does rhyme with jingle. You make the call.
2006-12-07 15:15:06 · answer #2 · answered by True Blue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are different kinds of rhyme.
Tinkling and Jingling are called an approximate rhyme. They rhyme because they share a lot of the same sounds.
However, the other kind of rhyme is exact rhyme where the sounds match up. For example, hedge & ledge.
2006-12-07 14:41:53 · answer #3 · answered by Princess Purple 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rhyme-Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse. I think tinkling and jingling rhyme b/c they both have the -ling sound at the end.
2006-12-07 14:40:57 · answer #4 · answered by Annie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rhyme Zone allows you to put in a word and it comes back with words that rhyme.
Free Online Rhyming Dictionary.
2006-12-07 14:43:34 · answer #5 · answered by Trouble with a capitol T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, technically, they don't rhyme. Neither tinkling and jingling, nor epic and angelic.
2006-12-07 14:42:11 · answer #6 · answered by Maus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Mingle rhymes with jingle. Droll rhymes with stroll. Look at the last syllable.
2016-05-23 05:24:40 · answer #7 · answered by Barbara 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's called imperfect or approximate rhyme. epic and angelic don't rhyme. the whole subject of "what rhymes?" seems a bit nit-picky. it's like what bored junior high english teachers think about in their spare time.
2006-12-07 14:46:41 · answer #8 · answered by lb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Far be it for me to correct someone who used to teach English, but....there certainly IS a word that rhymes with "jingling", and it is "tingling".
"It was a spine-tingling spy thriller!"
Furthermore, here's another: mingling - "I spent the whole party mingling with my guests".
Epic and angelic do not rhyme at all.
2006-12-07 15:05:37 · answer #9 · answered by happy heathen 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the accurate term for these two words is a "slant" rhyme. The don't sound the SAME, but they do sound SIMILAR.
http://www.rhymer.com/
The above site also names them "last syllable" rhymes
2006-12-07 15:38:50 · answer #10 · answered by Jen J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋