* Anaphora: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences.
* Antithesis: The juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas or words.
* Apostrophe: A figure of speech in which the speaker addresses an absent person or personified object.
* Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds in a word or phrase.
* Chiasmus: A reversal of the grammatical structure of two parallel clauses or phrases.
* Ellipsis: The omission of one or more words from a sentence without affecting its meaning.
* Euphemism: The use of a mild or indirect word or phrase to replace a harsh or unpleasant one.
* Hyperbole: An exaggeration for emphasis or effect.
* Irony: The use of words or phrases with a meaning that is different from or opposite to their literal meaning.
* Litotes: A form of understatement in which a negative is used to express a positive.
* Metaphor: A comparison of two things that are not alike in order to highlight a similarity between them.
* Metonymy: The substitution of one word or phrase for another that is closely associated with it.
* Oxymoron: A combination of two contradictory words or phrases.
* Parallelism: The repetition of a grammatical structure in successive clauses or sentences.
* Personification: The attribution of human characteristics to an inanimate object or abstract idea.
* Rhyme: The repetition of identical or similar sounds at the end of words or lines of poetry.
* Simile: A comparison of two things that are alike using the words "like" or "as."
* Synecdoche: The use of a part to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part.
* Understatement: A deliberate understatement of the truth for emphasis or effect.