al·lit·er·a·tion /əˌlidəˈrāSHən/noun = the occurrence of the same letter or
sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
One of my neighbors is a Negative Nellie. Whenever she sees me, she likes to point out every negative thing about me that she can think of, from how I look to how I walk. That's why I usually find another way to go if I see her. She caught me at the elevator on Monday.
I've decided I need to learn how to be rude (sorry, Mom) and walk rapidly away from her, even when she is talking to me. As I fumed in bed that night, I came up with the negative Nellie alliteration. Looking for an illustration for this post, I learned I am not the first to notice that "negative" goes nicely with "Nellie."
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