What is Rhyme?

Rhyme is when words sound similar at the end, just like how your favorite toy and its buddy always make the same noise when you press them.

Imagine you're playing with two blocks, one red, one blue. When you drop both at the same time, they clang together. That’s rhyme! The red block might be cat, and the blue block might be hat. Both end with the "at" sound, so they make a happy clang when they meet.

When you say "cat" and then "hat", your mouth does almost the same thing at the end. That’s why it feels like a little party in your head, a rhyme party!

Now imagine you're stacking blocks again, but this time with "dog" and "log". They also make a clang because they both end with the "og" sound.

Sometimes, rhymes can be tricky, like "sleep" and "keep", which both end with the "eep" sound. But once you hear them together, it's like finding two blocks that fit perfectly in your tower.