Rhetoric s peech or writing that communicates its point persuasively

2. Rhetoricspeech or writing that communicates its point persuasively

3. Analogya comparison based on a similarity between things that are otherwise dissimilar. "Cameron's house is like a museum. It's very cold, and very beautiful, and you're not allowed to touch anything.“ (Matthew Broderick as Ferris in Ferris Bueller's Day Off)

4. Repetition a literary device in which sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas are repeated for emphasis in a poem, a speech, or another piece of writing.

5. Alliteration the repetition of sounds, most often consonant sounds at the beginning of words. (Gives emphasis to words.) "A moist young moon hung above the mist of a neighboring meadow." Vladimir Nabokov

6. Paradox a situation or statement that seems to be impossible or contradictory but is nevertheless true, either literally or figuratively. Ex: “Youth is wasted on the young.”-George Bernard Shaw

7. Parallel Structure Two or more words, phrases, or clauses that are similar in length and grammatical form. Also called parallelism. Arranged in similar structures. By convention, items in a series appear in parallel grammatical form: a noun is listed with other nouns, an -ing form with other -ing forms, and so on. Failure to express such items in similar grammatical form is called faulty parallelism.

8. Examples of Parallelism “Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them.” "It is by logic we prove, but by intuition we discover.“ (Leonardo da Vinci) "Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature." (Tom Robbins)

9. Chiasmus inverted word order in phrase: a rhetorical construction in which the order of the words in the second of two paired phrases is the reverse of the order in the first. Example: "gray was the morn, all things were gray."