The poetic style which repeats a slightly modified root word to emphasize that root word while creating a rhyme.
Examples of "root word alliteration" are, "love—that unexplainably still unexplained phenomenon which in this era of perfection still makes the world go round—appears to take on a life of its own to grow and is irrefutably known to quickly deactivate reason in order to satisfy one or both lover's needs." And "It's better to be safe than sorry," said a tax-collector to a tax-evader who worked as a stocks and bond trader and wrestled against alligators."
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A literary device that involves each word of a sentence or phrase (generally three words or more) beginning with the same letter. Alliteration can be used to draw attention to an important point or phrase, for emphasis, or just because it sounds better.
"What was worse was when what woke Willa went west with William" is a prime example of alliteration.
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