Polyptoton. Like alliteration and assonance, its function is to give our sentences more musicality -- in particular, more rhythm by the repetition of sounds. And like alliteration and assonance, it comes in two varieties. Basically, the first type of polyptoton is a sentence that uses a word more than once in a sentence, the second use usually being slightly different in that it appears in a different tense, or in a different part of speech, but the root of the word is the same.
The group looked at the painter who painted loneliness in all her paintings.
Remembering the memory of that long ago rainstorm brought sadness.
So deep was my sorrow that my sorrowful heart seemed to weep for its own sorrow.
I dreamt of a distant world where grief was eased by dreaming.
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