Definition:
Similar sound endings to words, phrases, or sentences.
Etymology:
From the Greek, "like ending"Examples:
- ""My mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands."
(Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona) - "Beanz Meanz Heinz."
(Heinz advertising slogan) - "The quicker picker upper."
(Bounty advertising slogan) - "Loose lips sink ships."
(public service ad during World War II) - "Crispety, crunchety, peanut-buttery Butterfinger."
(advertising slogan for Butterfinger candy bar) - "He would clap his hands, lick his lips, narrow his eyes into a squinty gaze and extemporize, patronize, chastise, sermonize and crack wise all at the same time."
(Linton Weeks, describing Donald Rumsfeld)
Pronunciation: ho-moi-o-te-LOO-ton
Also Known As: homeoteleuton, rhyme
