rhetoric

allusion

a reference, explicit or implicit to something or someone in previous literature or history

anaphora

a deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive clauses, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs

chiasmus

figure of speech in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form (ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country)

diacope

word/phrase that is repeated after a brief interruption (love me love me say that you love me)

double epithet

two words of identical or almost identical meaning joined by a conjunction (big and mighty)

epistrophe

when you end subsequent sentences, clauses, or paragraphs with the same word

epizeuxis

repeating a word immediately in the same context (simplify simplify)

litotes

a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite (this is no small problem)

merism

figure of speech where something is not named but all of its parts are named

parallelism

repetition of the same grammatical pattern within a sentence (what we say and what we do)

polyptoton

repeated use of one word as different parts of speech or in different grammatical forms (i have been a stranger in a strange land- noun/adjective)

preterition

a figure of speech in which pretending to pass over something (i dont intend to dwell on)

rhetorical question

asking a question where the answer is self-evident

tricolon

figure of speech comprised of three clearly defined parts

tricolon crescens

figure of speech comprised of three clearly defined parts in ascending order