Repetition of Beginnings

Example:

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community

Arrangement by reversal of order

Example:

Rust and gold are the leaves

Repetition in different senses

Example:

And there's bars on the corners and bars on the heart

Repetition of succesive clauses in reverse grammatical order

Example:

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better

Repetition of words or ideas in crasting juxtaposition

Example:

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

Omission of conjunctions from clauses

Example:

They spent the day wondering, searching, thinking, understanding.

Arrangement of by ascending importance

Example:

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
But sad mortality o'er-sways their power

Repetition of ideas in inverted order

Example:

For the Lord is a Great God . . . in whose hand are the depths of the earth; the peaks of the mountains are his also

Omission

Example:

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater

Addition of correction

Example

I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do

Repition immediately

Example:

Shots! shots! shots! shots! shots!

Asking a question to affirm or deny a point

Example:

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution

Repetition of grammatical forms

Example:

We will fight them on the beaches, we will fight them in the streets

Addition of "pop-up" idea

Example:

Every time I try to think of a good rhetorical example, I rack my brains but--you guessed--nothing happens

Addition of conjunctions

Example:

The water, like a witch's oils, / Burnt green, and blue, and white

Omission of a verb from parallell clauses

Example:

Mr. Glowry held his memory in high honor, and made a punchbowl of his skull