- Alliteration: reinforce meaning, unify ideas, musical
- Analogy: more vivid, imaginative, intellectually engaging
- Antithesis: emphasize opposition of ideas
- Aphorism: memorable summation of point
- Apostrophe: add familiarity or emotional intensity
- Caricature: Comic or grotesque
- chiasmus: make a larger point or provide balance or order
- euphemism: adhere to standards or social or political correctness, or add humor or ironic understatement
- figurative language: imaginative and vivid
- hyperbole: comic or serious with irony
- irony: poignancy or humor
- juxtaposition: comparison or contrast
- loose sentence: informal, relaxed, conversational
- metaphor: vivid, imaginative, thought provoking, and meaningful
- parallelism: organizing force for readers attention, add emphasis and organization, musical rhythm
- periodic sentence: add emphasis and structural variety
Effects