In honor of these malcontents (traditionalists?), we're looking not for a single word but for a pair of words — and more specifically, for a pair of rhyming words, one of which is the name of someone famous.
The second task required the child to identify a pair of rhyming words in short spoken poems.
There were seven trials and the total number of pairs of rhyming words correctly recalled was calculated.
The volunteers, working on a computer, were asked whether a pair of words rhymed.
Here, Ms. Ahrens uses a pair of well-placed rhymes -- "ship" and "trip," "danger" and "stranger" -- to reveal whole vistas of subtext and characterization: A salute to the man On the deck of that ship!
Filmed on the south shore of Staten Island, a suburban area on the edge of New York City, it featured the White Trash Clan, a pair of local rappers, rhyming about the joy of getting high off prescription painkillers.
If you're curious about trying to write a poem that rhymes in a pre-determined pattern, you can try out any of the following: Couplets are a deceptively simple pair of lines that rhyme together, and poems can be made up of lots of couplets to create what is called "heroic couplets".
Located west of Syracuse and south of Lake Ontario, the names of the Finger Lakes range from the tongue twister-esque Skaneateles and Canandaigua to the rhyming pair of Keuka and Cayuga.
The little girl who narrates the tale in rhyme -- a pair of eyes and some hair trapped in a snowsuit -- learns much on her brief journey.
Made on a big, white painter's drop cloth with sneaker prints on it, "Eyes and Eggs" affectionately portrays a black short-order cook in a white cap with the name "Joe" on his white shirt holding a frying pan containing a pair of fried eggs whose red yolks rhyme with his goggle eyes.
