What is the rime in the word 'flame'?

What is the rime in the word 'flame'?

• A. fl
• B. lam
• C. ame
• D. flame

Answer: (C)

Rime is the part of a syllable that contains the vowel and everything that comes after it. In flame, there is one syllable, so it splits into an onset and a rime. The onset is the initial cluster fl, and the rest of the syllable, ame, is the rime. The rime carries the vowel sound (the long a) and the following consonant m, and it’s the part that forms rhymes with words like name, game, tame, and same. The piece fl is not the rime because it’s the starting sounds; taking lam as the rime would cut across the natural boundary and doesn’t reflect the actual vowel sound in flame. So the rime is ame.

Rime is the part of a syllable that contains the vowel and everything that comes after it. In flame, there is one syllable, so it splits into an onset and a rime. The onset is the initial cluster fl, and the rest of the syllable, ame, is the rime. The rime carries the vowel sound (the long a) and the following consonant m, and it’s the part that forms rhymes with words like name, game, tame, and same. The piece fl is not the rime because it’s the starting sounds; taking lam as the rime would cut across the natural boundary and doesn’t reflect the actual vowel sound in flame. So the rime is ame.