Homeoptoton
{{Short description|Figure of speech}}
The homeoptoton (from the Greek homoióptoton, "similar in the cases"), is a figure of speech consisting in ending the last words of a distinct part of the speech with the same syllable or letter.{{cite web |title=Homeoptoton - Figure of Speech |url=http://www.retoricas.com/2012/02/homeoptoton-figure-of-speech.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925080023/http://www.retoricas.com/2012/02/homeoptoton-figure-of-speech.html |archive-date=2013-09-25 |accessdate=22 April 2013 |website=www.retoricas.com/}}{{cite web|title=Henry Peachum., The Garden of Eloquence (1593): Schemas|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0096%3Apart%3DSchemates+Rhetorical%3Asubpart%3DThe+first+order%3Asection%3DFigures+of+Conjunction%3Asubsection%3DHomeoptoton|accessdate=22 April 2013}}
Example
"In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas" ("In necessary things unity, in doubtful things liberty, in all things charity").
"Hominem laudem egentem virtutis, abundantem felicitates" ("Am I to praise a man abounding in good luck, but lacking in virtue?").