Rosaria
Alternative form of Rosalia (“ancient festival”).
A female given name from Latin.
“Announcement has been made by Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Williams of this city of the marriage of their daughter, Miss Rosaria Williams, to Charles W. Churchill, son of Mrs. Benton Reamer of Jersey City, which took place on Aug. 20 in Lakeport, Calif.”
“The court ruled that Rosaria Candura, who is in Arlington’s Symmes Hospital with a gangrene‐infected right leg, “has not been shown to be legally incompetent, and her leg may not be amputated unless she herself consents to the operation.””
““Your marriage is an example to others of how life is supposed to work,” Rosaria E. Salerno, Boston’s city clerk, told Joe Rogers and Tom Weikle, choking with emotion as she married the longtime couple in City Hall's first same-sex ceremony Monday morning.”
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Alliteration
Words starting with the same consonant sound — used in poetry and prose to create rhythm, emphasis, and memorable phrasing (e.g. “Peter Piper picked”)
Assonance
Words sharing similar vowel sounds regardless of starting letter — creates internal melody in writing
Learned borrowing from Latin Rosāria.
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