词条 | Homeoteleuton |
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HistoryHomeoteleuton (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 example of
ōiēthēsan auton paidion tetokenai,
In Latin rhetoric and poetry homeoteleuton was a frequently used device. It was used to associate the two words which had the similar endings and bring them to the reader's attention. and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul. (Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, speech, 1866) Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything except perhaps violence. (Pearl Bailey, Pearl's Kitchen) He arrived at ideas the slow way, never skating over the clear, hard ice of logic, nor soaring on the slipstreams of imagination, but slogging, plodding along on the heavy ground of existence. (Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven) TypesToday, homeoteleuton denotes more than Aristotle's original definition. Near rhymeAs rhyme, homeoteleuton is not very effective. It is the repetition of word endings. Because endings are usually unstressed and rhyme arises from stressed syllables, they do not rhyme well at all. In the following passage The waters rose rapidly, and I dove under quickly. both rapidly and quickly end with the adverbial ending -ly. Although they end with the same sound, they don't rhyme because the stressed syllable on each word (RA-pid-ly and QUICK-ly) has a different sound.[4] However, use of this device still ties words together in a sort of rhyme or echo relationship, even in prose passages: humanely, and lovingly. (Carol Pearson, The Hero Within) "Well, sir, here's to plain speaking and clear understanding." (Caspar Gutman to Sam Spade, Chapter XI (The Fat Man) in Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (1930) "The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter." (Sam Spade to Wilmer, Chapter XII (Merry-Go-Round) in Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (1930) Scribal errorIn the field of palaeography and textual criticism, homeoteleuton has also come to mean a form of copyist error present in ancient texts. A scribe would be writing out a new copy of a frequently reproduced book, such as the Bible. As the scribe was reading the original text, his eyes would skip from one word to the same word on a later line, leaving out a line or two in the transcription. When transcripts were made of the scribe's flawed copy (and not the original) errors are passed on into posterity. An example of this can be found in the Bible, more specifically in I Samuel 11. The Israelite city of Jabesh-Gilead was under siege by the Ammonites:
Prior passages do not explain Nahash's desire to blind the Israelites, and scholars have been unable to explain this punishment in the context of the Bible. A find from the Dead Sea scrolls, the scroll 4QSama, gives the missing beginning to I Samuel 11.[5] Some very recent English translations (such as the TNIV) add the reading in a footnote.
References1. ^Silva Rhetoricae (2006). Rhetorical Figures for Shakespeare and the Scriptures {{Refbegin}}{{Refend}}2. ^Brigham Young University (2006). Rhetorical Figures for Shakespeare and the Scriptures 3. ^Perseus Digital Library (2006). Aristotle, Rhetoric 4. ^ Brinkman, Baba. (2002). "The Beste Rym I Kan: The Emergence of Rhyme in English" 5. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.lehrhaus.org/catalog/scrolls/scrolls4.html |title=Session IV: A Journey Through the Scrolls |year=2006 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080731224026/http://www.lehrhaus.org/catalog/scrolls/scrolls4.html |archivedate=31 July 2008 |series=Fifty Years of the Dead Sea Scrolls |publisher=Lehrhaus Judaica}} Further reading
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