consonance		"The wind whispered through the trees."
climax		The excessive use of conjuctions to "slow the pace."
onomatopoeia		"A good pun is its own re-word."
alliteration		Are you leaving out a word because it is already implied by the context of the words around it? Try this rhetorical strategy.
Ellipsis		In this rhetorical strategy, words are repeated at the begining of successive clauses.
paradox		"Then the decurion and his troopers herded their prisoner back...." -Patrick Larkin, The Tribune (169)
Periodic		"Why are you such an idiot?"
epanalepsis		A statement that has some truth, but seems to contradict itself.
chiasmus		Using the words "Capitol Hill" instead of the word "government."
apposition		Grammatical structure of the first clause, is reversed to create the second.
Anthimeria		A clearly expressed comparison, recognized by the use of Like or as.
Irony		most commonly known as the usage of a noun as a verb.
synecdoche		When one word describes two or more nouns, but the word is written only once. Think implied meaning.
Polyptoton		The reptition of similar consonant sounds at the middle or ends of words.
oxymoron		Antanaclasis is a type of this.
Parenthesis		Arranging ideas in order of importance.
euphemism		The absence of conjuctions between phrases. Opposite of polysyndenton
hyperbole		"Sparkles, my cat, coughed up a hairball."
antithesis		Common forms of this are Situational, Cosmic, and Dramatic.
Paronomasia		"I loved his eyes(the extent to which he loved could be argued) and his hair."
Antimetabole		Isocolon is a type of this.
zeugma		Repetition of vowel sounds within words.
pun		"She loved her cake, her cake was her life, her life was her hell, and her hell was her freedom."
anastrophe		"Nothing will come of nothing." -Shakespeare's King Lear
asyndenton		"Sanitation Engineer"
Anadiplosis		This strengthens an idea with underexaggeration. Think Chandler from friends.
parallelism		The opposite of anaphora.
polysyndenton		"Jumbo Shrimp."
litotes		Words from the same root are repeated, but in different senses.
personification		Opposite of litotes.
Loose		Substituting a descriptive word for a proper name.
Simile		A comparison between two unlike things. By the way, the comparison is implied.
Antanaclasis		This is when opposite ideas are stated together to show contrast.
Apostrophe		The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of each word.
anaphora		"A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch And blue spurt of a lighted match." -Browning's Meeting At Night
metonymy		"God, why do you mock me so?"
epistrophe		This type of sentence ends with a dependent clause and begins with an independent clause and the main idea.
Periphrasis		Everyone should fight to live, not live to fight.
isocolon		In greek, this means a "turning back" and deals with word order.
metaphor		"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." -Groucho Marx
assonance		Parallelism in which several successive phrases contain the same amount of words and sometimes syllables.
Rhetoricalquestion		The main idea is at the end of this type of sentence.