An Example of Slant Rhyme

Last panel:

“gesture” almost fits, so it qualifies as slant rhyme.

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Haven’t heard the term “slant rhyme” for years. Do you know what it means?

Teme for a lesson in prosody. Here’s what google’s AI says:

What is slant rhyme? With many different names – approximate rhyme, half-rhyme, near rhyme, oblique rhyme, and imperfect rhyming – slant rhyme is a rhyming scheme in which the words have similar but not identical sounds. Depending on the words used, this can be achieved with a difference in consonants or vowels.

I’ll have to come up with an example or two. These look to me like they match well enough to qualify as full rhymes. At least if you count only the last words…

Many use the plural of “criterion” as a singular. Bad.

Same problem with “media” and “medium.”

The humor is because the word is self-referential.

…at least she sees the word as self-referential.

Of course the humor in this comic lies in the bad location of the phrase in the last panel. Can you tell where it should go?