LITERARY DEVICES/FIGURES OF SPEECH: 30 ELEMENTS & TECHNIQUES FOR WRITERS (With Examples) 1. Alliteration Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds within a group of words. For example, “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.” Nonfiction Authors can use alliteration to create catchy chapter or subsection titles. For example, “4 Best Bets for Better Business.” Alliteration is also particularly effective for highlighting concepts you want your readers to remember. For exampl

My Husband Demanded I Explain Every Cent I Spent “Because I Don’t Earn” — But He Never Imagined His Mother Would Read My Notebook ======= I never imagined marriage would become a daily audit. Yet there I was, a mother of twin babies, logging why I bought diapers and shampoo like I was begging for a loan from the world’s pettiest bank. But trust me, the reckoning that followed was worth every humiliating entry in that notebook. Here’s how it started. My husband, Nudd, and I had been together six