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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an alliterative appellation
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Get the alliterati mug.What Wren Weichman calls having similar sounding words next to each other to describe something.
He used it here at 5:47 in 'I Will Make the World's Largest Phone Battery' on youtube.
The captions misread him as saying 'alliterate has a channel bull' though.
Wren is a national treasure and any words he makes up are as well.
He used it here at 5:47 in 'I Will Make the World's Largest Phone Battery' on youtube.
The captions misread him as saying 'alliterate has a channel bull' though.
Wren is a national treasure and any words he makes up are as well.
This battery is very fragile, it's very volatile, and it's very venerous...I was trying to be alliterate..alliterative...alliteratizationable!
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A guy you just meet that confessed to transforming his inhaler into a marijuana smoking device
A guy you just meet that confessed to transforming his inhaler into a marijuana smoking device
You can't use that for smoking, you albuterol abuser. Albuteral is to help you breathe.
She can't be an albuteral abuser, she is using her inhaler correctly
She can't be an albuteral abuser, she is using her inhaler correctly
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"What was worse was when what woke Willa went west with William" is a prime example of alliteration.
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