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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Someone typing "illustration" while simultaneously tripping acid and having a grand mal seizure. Or a Millennial who's turned off autocorrect doing the same.
typing sounds, followed by spastic thudding and Pink Floyd music or Anyone using more than one hashtag per day, posting their lunch to social media and wearing pants that look like they've shit themselves, trying to spell "illustration" but is tired of autocorrect constantly changing their pathetic excuse for a proper lexicon. Both are common sources of the abomination that is "illisttration" in email, text, facebook and forum posts.
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Get the ILLITERATENESS mug.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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