Homoioteleuton

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A Homoioteleuton , sometimes also called Homöoteleuton ( Greek  ὁμοιοτέλευτον homoiotéleuton ), is a rhetorical figure from the group of sound figures. A homo teleuton is the repetition of the same word ending in successive words. In contrast to rhyme , it can also be unstressed word endings (see below the English example with rapidly and quickly , which do not rhyme).

origin

The name Homoioteleuton is composed of the Greek ὁμοῖος homoios "equal" and ἡ τελευτή teleute "end". Other spellings are Homoeoteleuton , Omoioteliton , Omoioteleton .

The homoioteleuton is discussed as one of the possible sources that could have fed the emergence of the final rhyme, which suddenly appeared after the end of classicism in late antiquity , quickly became increasingly popular and soon dominated European poetry for a good millennium. On the other hand, the objection has to be made that the homoioteleuton in the previous literature of the Mediterranean world was never anything other than a curious literary collector's item, but from the beginning of the early Middle Ages in the Celtic (Ireland, Wales) and Germanic (especially Old High German- speaking regions) literatures as (a) formal main characteristic of poetic structure occurs.

history

The homoioteleuton was first described by Aristotle in his rhetoric , in which he defined it as two consecutive lines of verse ending with words with identical endings. As an example he brought:

ᾦήϑησαν αὐτὸν παιδίον τετοκέναι,
ἀλλ 'αὐτοῦ αἴτιον γεγονέναι

ôiêthêsan auton paidion tetokenai,
all 'autu aition Gegonenai

Examples

  • Heb .: Tohuwabohu
  • eng .: The waters rose rapidly, and I dove under quickly.
  • eng .: He is esteemed eloquent which can invent wittily, remember perfectly, dispose orderly, figure diversly [sic], pronounce aptly, confirm strongly, and conclude directly.
  • French: liberté, egalité, fraternité
  • lat .: diligere formam, neglegere famam
  • Latin: Urbi et orbi
  • lat .: veni, vidi, vici ( alliteration , climax and homoioteleuton)
  • ... and devoured the little bland maggot without mercy. Pity! ( Heinz Erhardt : Die Made )
  • went along, caught up, hung up
  • trust, look who
  • small but nice
  • He feels as if there were a thousand bars ... ( Rainer Maria Rilke : The Panther )
  • round and healthy

literature

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Aristotle: Rhetoric , 1410a20.