The homeoptoton (from the
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
''homoióptoton'', "similar in the cases"), is a
figure of speech
A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is a word or phrase that intentionally deviates from ordinary language use in order to produce a rhetorical effect. Figures of speech are traditionally classified into '' schemes,'' which vary the ordinary ...
consisting in ending the last words of a distinct part of the speech with the same syllable or letter.
Example
"''In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas''" ("''In necessary things unity, in doubtful things liberty, in all things charity''").
"''Hominem laudem egentem virtutis, abundantem felicitates''" ("''Am I to praise a man abounding in good luck, but lacking in virtue?''").
References
Figures of speech
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