Term that describes a situation where you unkowingly trap yourself in a sentence where your only option is to say the same word that you aready said earlier in the sentence, making you sound like a goddamn moron.
Grandparent: "So what do you study these days?"
Middle Eastern Studies Major: "Well, I study... Middle Eastern Studies"
Grandma: "Nice word-alliteration, jackass."
Middle Eastern Studies Major: "Well, I study... Middle Eastern Studies"
Grandma: "Nice word-alliteration, jackass."
by pornomancer July 30, 2010
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."
by but for October 20, 2017