| Figure Name | paromoiosis |
| Source | Silva Rhetoricae (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm); Bullinger (1898) ("paromoeosis: or, like-sounding inflections") |
| Earliest Source | None |
| Synonyms | paromoeosis, assonance, like-sounding inflection |
| Etymology | from para meaning "beside," and homoisis meaning "likeness" |
| Type | Scheme |
| Linguistic Domain |
Phonological |
| Definition |
1. Parallelism of sound between the words of adjacent clauses whose lengths are equal or approximate to one another. The combination of isocolon and assonance. |
| Example |
In the following couplet, each line is of equal length (iambic pentameter), and the parallel assonance has been highlighted: |
| Kind Of | Repetition Symmetry Series Addition |
| Part Of | |
| Related Figures | isocolon, assonance, Figures of Repetition, Figures of Sound, Figures of Parallelism |
| Notes | Bullinger defines paromoiosis as "the Repetition of Inflections similar in Sound" (Bullinger, 188), and gives the following example from Matthew (11:17): "We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ("orchee sasthe"); we have mourned unt you, and ye have not lamented ("ekop sasthe")." (Bullinger, 189) |
| Confidence | Very Confident |
| Last Editor | Randy Harris |
| Confidence | Very Confident |
| Editorial Notes | |
| Reviewed | No |