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The wiki defines a rhyme as:

...A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words, most often at the end of lines in poems and songs...

But if I have just 2 words in a statement that in my opinion rhymes, can I say that the one liner rhymes. If 'rhyme' is not the correct term, then what is the correct term for it.

The one liner is "Chef Ash".

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    What exactly are you asking? Obviously chef and ash don't rhyme, but if they did, they would. – FumbleFingers Apr 13 '14 at 14:10
  • @FumbleFingers Can I not consider the 2 words as near rhymes? To me it just sounds similar enough to be considered at least near rhymes. – user1720897 Apr 13 '14 at 14:28
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    For the purposes of rhyme, "similar sounds" generally means "same/similar vowels". The fact that the consonant /ʃ/ occurs in chef and ash (or wash and trash, for example) wouldn't normally be described as a "rhyme". – FumbleFingers Apr 13 '14 at 14:38
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    Do not depend on wikis for definitions that apply to everything. – John Lawler Apr 13 '14 at 15:52
  • Possibly related: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/130814/what-different-types-of-rhymes-are-used-here – John Y Apr 13 '14 at 16:49
  • Chef Jeff would count as what you dub a "one-line rhyme", but, for Chef Ash, I'd side with our King of Consonance, @FumbleFingers – J.R. Apr 13 '14 at 18:24
  • @J.R.: Until reading your comment I'd never really registered that connection between *consonants* (non-vowels) and *consonance* (more likely than *rhyme* when the "sim,ilar sound" turns more on consonants than vowels). – FumbleFingers Apr 13 '14 at 18:56

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I'd describe this as an example of either assonance or consonance - or simply as an internal rhyme.

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  • It seems more like consonance than assonance – that would describe the /ʃ/ sound at the beginning and end of Chef Ash. – J.R. Apr 13 '14 at 18:18