Antanagoge

Placing a good point or benefit next to a fault, criticism, or problem in order to reduce the impact or significance of the negative point

eg. Yes, I lost my job, but now I can spend more time at home.

eg. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

eg. True, he forgets her birthday, but he buys her presents throughout the year.

Asyndeton

Omitting conjunctions between words/phrases/clauses

eg. I came, I saw, I conquered.

eg. We need milk, eggs, flour.

Epanalepsis

repeats the beginning word of a clause or sentence at the end. The beginning and the end are the two positions of strongest emphasis in a sentence, so by having the same word in both places, you call special attention to it

eg. Our eyes saw it, but we could not believe our eyes.

eg. The king is dead, long live the king.

Reversing the order of repeated words or phrases to intensify the final formulation, present alternatives, or show contrast

eg. All work and no play is as harmful to mental health as all plaly and no work.

eg. Ask not what you can do for rhetoric, but what rhetoric can do for you.

An extravagant, implied, metaphor using words in an alien or unusual way OR a misapplication of a word, especially  in a mixed metaphor

eg. I will speak flowers to her

eg. It's a dentured lake, break a tooth out of that grin and she will spit all the way to Duganville

eg. To take arms against a sea of troubles

The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences ~~ It is an extremely emphatic device because of the emphasis placed on the last word

eg. and all the night he did nothing but weep Philoclea, sigh Philoclea, and cry out Philoclea

The use of a word or phrase in a sense contrary to its normal meaning for ironic or humorous effects

eg. Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money--and a woman--and I didn't get the money and I didn't get the woman. Pretty, isn't it?

a verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first with the parts reversed

eg. I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me

eg. Fair is foul, and foul is fair

using an appropriate adjective (often habitually) to characterize a person or thing

eg. Richard the Lion-Hearted

eg. Gray-Eyed Athena

Qualifies a statement by recalling it (or part of it) and expressing it in a better, milder, or stronger way

Often used in conjunction with a negative

eg. That is the 2nd largest platypus I've ever seen, nay the largest

eg. I like cake; well, perhaps not as much as pie

Opposite of Asyndeton

The use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause

eg. The platypus ate pie and cake and cookies and salad.

eg. He felt stuffed and slept and woke up and slept again or ate more pie

Repeats a word for emphasis

eg. This rhetorical term is easy, easy, easy to remember.

A word derived from a name of a real, fictional, or mythical character or person

eg. The word 'boycott' came from the landlord Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott

eg. The word 'August' came from Augustus Caesar, a Roman Emperor

comparisons that show how two things that are not really alike, in most ways are similar in one important way

eg. The wave, a brick wall of doom

Raising an objection to one's own argument and then answering it

eg. Of course you know this already, so why am I pointing it out? Well recent research has added new detail