Homoioteleuton

Homoioteleuton

**Homoioteleuton, also spelled as //homeoteleuton// and //homoeoteleuton// [ho-moi-o-te-loo-ton] **

**Definition: ** Similar endings to words, phrases, or sentences; a series of words with the same or similar endings **General Information: **
 * Derived from the Greek word – homios: “like”, teleute: “ending”
 * Although homoioteleuton has words with same/similar endings, these words may not necessarily sound like rhymes: the endings are usually unstressed and instead, the stressed parts of the words might sound completely different. (i.e. from RAP-id-ly and QUICK-ly, capital letters are stressed parts, not the ‘-ly’ endings they have in common.)
 * The repetition pattern created through the same endings draws attention
 * Accentuates the rhythm of words with common endings, linking these parallel words together
 * Often used common endings: -ly, -ing, -ed

**Examples: ** **1. ****General examples **
 * “It is important to use all knowledge ethical**ly**//,// humane**ly**//,// and loving**ly**.” – Carol Pearson
 * //“ //Hungry people cannot be good at learn**ing** or produc**ing** anyth**ing** except perhaps violence.” – Pearl Bailey
 * <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">“We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weak**est** and feebl**est** of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.” – Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

<span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 38pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-para-margin-left: 0gd; text-indent: -18pt;">**<span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">2. ****<span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">E.B. White examples **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">“After the lions had returned to their cages… a little bunch of us drifted a**way** and into an open door**way** nearby, where we stood for a while in semidarkness, watch**ing** a big brown circus horse go harrumph**ing** around the practice ring.” (The Ring of Time, pg 178)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">“…clever**ly** proportion**ed**, deep**ly** brown**ed** by the sun, dusty, eater, and almost nak**ed**.” (The Ring of Time, pg 179)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">“Then the kettle drum, then the snare, then the bass drum and cymbals, then crackl**ing** light against the dark, and the gods grinn**ing** and lick**ing** their chops in the hills.” (Once More to the Lake, pg 252)
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">“Her egg is so rich**ly** brown, so wondrous**ly** beautiful as to defy description.” (Riposte, pg 75)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">“Hear**ing** the sad sounds of their muted horns drift**ing** out and mingl**ing** with the cry**ing** of gulls, I was afflicted with melancholy at the loss of my President – I felt bereft.” (The Years of Wonder, pg 226)

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