Wulfstan
Wulfstan is known for his recognizable writing style. Wulfstan plays with sounds in his prose. He uses alliteration (repetition of sounds at the beginning of two or more successive words). Two-stress rhythm is very typical for him. Wulfstan often repeats distinctive collocations (unrihta fela ‘much unlawfulness’) and rhyming binominals (two words linked by conjunction, for example stalu and cwalu ‘theft and murder’, wær and wis ‘aware and wise’), intensifiers (swyðe þearle ‘very severely’). His style is close to Old English poetry. He uses punctuation to make sure his texts can be read aloud easily.