Homoteleuton¶
homoteleuton · letter · validated
A passage in which successive words or clauses end with the same letter, the mirror of the tautogram's shared initials. The classical figure also admits a shared final syllable; this checker compares final letters only.
Provenance¶
- Source: Traditional; a classical rhetorical figure described by Quintilian
- Attribution:
traditional— classical or folk; no single origin to name - Checkability:
self— decidable from the text and its parameters alone - Attested:
codified— formulated as a rule by a tradition rather than declared by an author
Details¶
- Kind: restrictive
- Languages: en
- Requires:
tokens,fold_diacritics - Deterministic: yes
- In other languages: Homoioteleuton (de), Homéotéleute (fr)
Prompt hint¶
Write a passage in which every word ends with the same letter.
Parameters¶
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
final |
— | None |
Shared final letter; inferred if unset. |
fold_diacritics |
boolean | True |
Treat accented letters as their base letter, and ß as ss. |
Examples¶
shared-ending¶
en — this text satisfies the procedure.
many funny sunny
Parameters: final='y'
Source: constructed example; the figure is described by Quintilian
broken-ending¶
en — this text does not satisfy the procedure.
many funny cat
Parameters: final='y'
Source: constructed counterexample
accented-final¶
fr — this text satisfies the procedure.
café passé
Parameters: final='é'
Source: constructed example; final="é" folds to "e" and each word's own final letter folds the same way (ADR 0035)
broken-ending¶
fr — this text does not satisfy the procedure.
café chat
Parameters: final='é'
Source: constructed counterexample
homoteleuton-peacham¶
en — this text does not satisfy the procedure.
He is esteemed eloquent which can invent wittily, remember perfectly,
dispose orderly, figure diversly, pronounce aptly, confirme strongly,
and conclude directly.
Parameters: fold_diacritics=True, final='y'
Source: Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence (London, 1593 [1577]); example via Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoric.byu.edu), not collated against the 1593 original. Rejected: 14 x wrong_final. Peacham's figure turns on a shared final syllable; this row compares final letters only, which its catalogue entry states.