Appositio

Example: The Packers quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, was the Superbowl MVP.

Asyndeton Example: Julius Caesar

"I came, I saw, I conquered."
By: Julius Caesar

http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40532/#axzz1DEZjPr6I

Example of Euphemismos

Sam was of humble origins
humble origins being a euphemismos for poor


http://www.yourdictionary.com/esl/Euphemism-Lessons.html

Examples of Distinctio

"It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is." --Bill Clinton

Example of Epistrophe

"When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me."
1Corinthians 13:11 (New International Version)

Example of Anadiplosis

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you."

(Frank Oz as Yoda in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace)

http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/anadiplosis.htm

Example of Catachresis

"Mow the beard, Shave the grass, Pin the plank, Nail my sleeve."

-from Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, or the Art of Sinking in Poetry

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/pcraddoc/poemport.htm

Example of Sententia

"Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."

Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, 1864

Example of Paradox

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
-- George Orwell, Animal Farm

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