Metaphor - An implied comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common. Simile is a metaphor using like or as.
Synecdoche - A figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole.
Puns- A generic name for those figures which make a play on words (Your argument is sound, nothing but sound)
Anaphora - Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginnings of successive clauses.
Epistrophe- Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses.
Epanalepsis - Repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause.
Anadiplosis - Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause.
Climax - Arrangement of words, phrases or clauses in an order of increasing
importance.
Alliteration - Repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent
words.
Antithesis - Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel sturucture.
Paralellism - similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses.
Anastrophe - Inversion of the natural or usual word order.
Parenthesis - Insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical (normal word order) flow of the sentence.
Apposition - Placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first.
Ellipsis - deliberate omission of a word or of words which are readily implied by the context.
