- Anaphora: repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more sentences or clauses.
- Antithesis: two opposite or ideas that are introduced in a parallel way.
- Chiasmus: reversal in the order of words in two parallel phrases.
- Climax: the last part of a clause is the same as the beginning of the next clause.
- Dialysis: offers only two choices.
- Idiom: two words that when combined have a meaning of their own.
- Metonymy: uses the part to describe a whole.
- Multiple-yoking: a single subject is accompanied by multiple verbs, usually arranged in a parallel series.
- Self-answering questions: rhetorical questions that are asked and soon answered.
- Speak-around: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
- Synecdoche: a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part.