homeoteleuton

Homeoteleuton, also spelled homoeoteleuton and homoioteleuton (from the Greek , homoioteleuton, "like ending"), is the repetition of endings in words. Homeoteleuton is also known as near rhyme.

==History== Homeoteleuton (homoioteleuton) was first identified by Aristotle in his Rhetoric, where he identifies it as two lines of verse which end with words having the same ending. He uses the following example.