S: (n) catachresis (strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths'))
S: (n) chiasmus (inversion in the second of two parallel phrases)
S: (n) climax (arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness)
S: (n) conversion (interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition)
S: (n) emphasis (special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.)
S: (n) enallage (a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I'))
S: (n) epanorthosis (immediate rephrasing for intensification or justification) "Seems, madam! Nay, it is"
S: (n) epiplexis (a rhetorical device in which the speaker reproaches the audience in order to incite or convince them)
S: (n) hendiadys (use of two conjoined nouns instead of a noun and modifier)
S: (n) hypallage (reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face'))
S: (n) hyperbaton (reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love'))
S: (n) hypozeugma (use of a series of subjects with a single predicate)
S: (n) hypozeuxis (use of a series of parallel clauses (as in `I came, I saw, I conquered'))
S: (n) hysteron proteron (reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc. (as in `bred and born'))
S: (n) litotes, meiosis (understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)) "saying `I was not a little upset' when you mean `I was very upset' is an example of litotes"
S: (n) paregmenon (juxtaposing words having a common derivation (as in `sense and sensibility'))
S: (n) polysyndeton (using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in `he ran and jumped and laughed for joy'))
S: (n) prolepsis (anticipating and answering objections in advance)