Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Mosaic rhyme
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| Author: | Karen S. Chung |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email |
| Query: |
I'm collecting examples of *mosaic rhyme* for use in my aural-oral training classes, and am wondering if anybody has any handy you'd be willing to share. Mosaic rhyme is the matching of a one word with a rhyme consisting of more than one word. Examples: 1. 'We *toss 'em*, they're *awesome*' (pizza restaurant slogan) 2. 'Eat, drink and *remarry*.' (not an outright rhyme, but it is modeled after the phrase 'Eat, drink, and *be merry*.') (seen on a humorous sign sold in a souvenir shop) 3. 'What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get enough germs to catch pneu*monia* After you do, he'll never *phone ya*...' (Burt Bacharach, "I'll never fall in love again") Some rhymes work in one dialect (e.g. Midwestern US), not in another (e.g. RP; this may of course work the other way around; 'awesome foursome' - a feminine rather than mosaic rhyme - is an example of something that works in RP but not Midwestern US); I'm interested in anything at all that works in *some* dialect of English. Silly rhymes are fine - even preferred! - since mosaic rhyme is often used for (or inadvertently creates!) comic effect anyway. A Web search turned up very little. Anything you happen to have would be much appreciated. I'll post a summary if there are enough responses. Thanks!!! Karen Steffen Chung National Taiwan University karchung@ccms.ntu.edu.tw |
