1. Advanced Rhetorical Devices
Rhetoric is the art of using language effectively and persuasively.
We all use rhetoric on a daily basis.
(We just may not call it a fancy name------yet.)

2. antithesis
A figure of speech which refers to the juxtaposition of opposing or contrasting ideas. Brings out of a contrast in ideas by an obvious contrast in the words, clauses, or sentences, within a parallel grammatical structure.

3. example of antithesis
It can't be wrong if it feels so right"

4. aporia
Deliberating with oneself as though in doubt over some matter; asking oneself (or rhetorically asking one's hearers) what is the best or appropriate way to approach something.

5. Where shall I begin to describe her wisdom. In her knowledge of facts
Where shall I begin to describe her wisdom? In her knowledge of facts? In her ability to synthesize diverse matters? In her capacity to articulate complex ideas simply?
Example of aporia

6. hyperbaton
An inversion of normal word order. For example placing the verb in front of the subject

7. Example of aporia
Why should their liberty than ours be more?

8. epistrophe
Ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words.

9. Example of epistrophe
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us." —Emerson

10. symploce
The combination of anaphora and epistrophe: beginning a series of lines, clauses, or sentences with the same word or phrase while simultaneously repeating a different word or phrase at the end of each element in this series.

11. Example of symploce
"Against yourself you are calling him, against the laws you are calling him, against the democratic constitution you are calling him"

12. Chiasmus
Repetition of ideas or grammatical structures in inverted order

13. Example of chiasmus
It is boring to eat; to sleep is fulfilling

14. synesthesia Blending, merging, comingling of senses
Using a visual sense to describe a sound for example- or a smell for a color?

15. Example of synesthesia
The wallpaper had a yellow smell-

16. synecdoche
A type of metaphor- A whole is represented by naming one of its parts or vice versa

17. Example of synecdoche
Listen, you've got to come take a look at my new set of wheels.

18. metonymy
A type of metaphor in which the whole is represented by something or someone related to it or by naming one of its attributes. 

19. Example of metonymy
The pen is mightier than the sword

20. anaphora
Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines.

21. Example of anaphora
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise,

22. Periodic sentence
Sentence in which the meaning or sense is suspended until the end

23. Example of periodic sentence
Of man's first disobedience and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse...
Milton