Prose alliteration should be used only for a special reason; when used by accident it falls upon the ear very disagreeably.
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Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.
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You can never know enough about your characters.
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It is a psychological trait in human nature that interest is established in the persons whom the playwright introduces at the beginning of his play so firmly that if the interest is then switched off to other persons who enter upon the scene later, a sense of disappointment ensues.
