This story has a lot of words that sound the same at the end. These are called rhyming words. Let's find words that rhyme on this page? How can you tell if cat and mat rhyme?
Rhyming words sound very much alike at the end. Read the words out loud or have someone read them to you.
I said the words cat and mat out loud. "Cat." "Mat." They begin with different letters but they have the same ending sound and so they rhyme.