A Homoioteleuton (also Homoeoteleuton, Omoioteliton, Omoioteleton) is a figure in Rhetoric. The term is composed of Greek homoios "equal" and teleute "end". Rhetoric (from Greek ρητωρ, rhêtôr, orator) is one of the three original liberal arts or trivium (the other members are dialectic and grammar). ...

It describes a sort of assonance, the occurrence of similar endings in words of consecutive clauses. In Late Antiquity, the homoioteleuton developed into rhyme. Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within a short passage of verse or prose. ... Late Antiquity is a rough periodization used by historians and other scholars to describe the interval between high Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Europe and the Mediterranean world - between the decline of the western Roman Empire from the 3rd century AD onward, to the resurgence of the West... A rhyme is the association of words with similar sounds, a technique most often used in poetry. ...

For example: How churlishly I chid Lucetta hence When wilingly I would have had her here! How angerly I taught my brow to frown... (Two Gentlemen of Verona, I.ii.60) The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by Shakespeare from early in his career. ...

In palaeography, a homoioteleuton is a omission whereby the copyist has accidentally skipped some bit of text, having looked away from the text he was copying and then looking back at a different spot where the same bit of text occurs, and copying from that point on. Palaeography, literally old writing, (from the Greek words paleos = old and grapho = write) is the study of script. ...

Homoioteleuton frequently appears as a device in Latin rhetoric and poetry. Its primary use was often to link the words with the repeated endings together in association, and also to bring attention to them. Latin is the language that was originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...