a type of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole, the whole for a part, the genus for the species, the species for the genus, the material for the thing made, or in short, any portion, section, or main quality for the whole or the thing itself (or vice versa).
A play on words, often achieved through the use of words with similar sounds but different meanings.
The use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural.
If I had some wheels, I'd put on my best threads and ask for Jane's hand in marriage.
Kings worry about a receding heir line.
"He pulled the blue plastic tarp off of him and folded it and carried it out to the grocery cart and packed it and came back with their plates and some cornmeal cakes in a plastic bag and a plastic bottle of syrup."
(Cormac McCarthy, The Road , Knopf, 2006)
"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
The use of similar grammatical elements within a sentence or sentences.
The umbrella under which many rhetorical devices fall: anitmetabole, anaphora, chiasmus.
A statement that is self-contradictory on the surface, yet seems to evoke a truth nonetheless another form of metaphor, very similar to synecdoche (and, in fact, some rhetoricians do not distinguish between the two), in which the thing chosen for the metaphorical image is closely associated with (but not an actual part of) the subject with which it is to be compared. a particular form of understatement, is generated by denying the opposite or contrary of the word which otherwise would be used. Depending on the tone and context of the usage, litotes either retains the effect of understatement, or becomes an intensifying expression. placing things side-by-side usually done with the intention of bringing out a specific quality or creating an effect, particularly when two contrasting or opposing elements are used. The reader’s attention is drawn to the similarities or differences between the elements. Juxtaposition therefore creates contrasting emotions, but they are connected at some level and therefore we are able to see them while placed together.
Whosoever loses his life, shall find it.
The orders came directly from the White House.
The suits in the executive office never work as hard as we do.
Hitting that telephone pole certainly didn't do your car any good.
Michael Moore uses juxtaposition in Fahrenheit
911, when he plays the song "What a Wonderful
World" while playing scenes of war and violence.
An independent clause followed by a series of subordinate constructions (phrases or clauses) that gather details about a person, place, event, or idea.
Contrast with periodic sentence.
"reverse parallelism," since the second part of a grammatical construction is balanced or paralleled by the first part, only in reverse order. Instead of an
A,B structure (e.g., "learned unwillingly") paralleled by another A,B structure ("forgotten gladly"), the
A,B will be followed by B,A ("gladly forgotten").
So instead of writing, "What is learned unwillingly is forgotten gladly," you could write, "What is learned unwillingly is gladly forgotten."
"The San Bernardino Valley lies only an hour east of Los Angeles by the San Bernardino
Freeway but is in certain ways an alien place: not the coastal California of the subtropical twilights and the soft westerlies off the Pacific but a harsher California, haunted by the Mojave just beyond the mountains, devastated by the hot dry
Santa Ana wind that comes down through the passes at 100 miles an hour and whines through the eucalyptus windbreaks and works on the nerves."
(Joan Didion, "Some Dreamers of the Golden
Dream." Slouching Towards Bethlehem , 1968)
He labors without complaining and without bragging rests.

omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. In a list of items, asyndeton gives the effect of unpremeditated multiplicity, of an extemporaneous rather than a labored account
A viewpoint opposite to one expressed in a thesis; the juxtaposition of two opposing ideas, whether in a sentence, paragraph, etc. reversing the order of repeated words or phrases (a loosely chiastic structure, AB-BA) to intensify the final formulation, to present alternatives, or to show contrast
On his return he received medals, honors, treasures, titles, fame.
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues ." —Abraham
Lincoln
All work and no play is as harmful to mental health as all play and no work.
The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences.
A long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is not completed until the final word--usually with an emphatic climax. Contrast with cumulative sentence.
A construction in which one word is used in two different senses.
Ask not what you can do for rhetoric, but what rhetoric can do for you.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of
Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way...
— Charles Dickens,
A Tale of Two Cities
"And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing."
(The King James Bible, I Corinthians 13)
"You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit."
( Star Trek: The Next Generation )
CBAPELC LO1
—analyze and interpret samples of good writing, identifying and explaining an author’s use of rhetorical strategies and techniques
ELAALRL5: The student identifies and correctly uses literary and rhetorical terminology and applies that knowledge to deepen understanding and appreciation of the text.
ELA11LSV2.a Uses effective and interesting language, including informal expressions for effect, Standard American English for clarity, technical language for specificity.
ELA11LSV2.c
Analyzes effective speeches made for a variety of purposes .