Pronunciation: par-a-go'-ge
Alternate Spelling: proparalepsis
The addition of a lettter or syllable to the end of a word. A kind of metaplasm.
Addition of a final letter: In Love's Labour's Lost Holofernes parodies this figure. Both "sore" and "sorel" named kinds of deer. By adding an "L" [= 50 in Roman numerals] through paragoge, he makes "50" deer: If sore be sore, then L to sore makes fifty sores o' sorel