2) rhetorical. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...by overelaborate or bombastic rhetoric. 3. Used for persuasive effect: a speech punctuated by rhetorical pauses. rheˇtoriˇcalˇly -ADVERB...

3) declamatory. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...1. Having the quality of a declamation. 2. Pretentiously rhetorical; bombastic....

4) polysyndeton. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...The repetition of conjunctions in close succession for rhetorical effect, as in the phrase here and there and everywhere. Late Greek polusundeton, from neuter of...

5) chiasmus. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Inflected forms: pl. chiˇasˇmi (-m) A rhetorical inversion of the second of two parallel structures, as in Each throat/Was parched, and glazed each eye (Samuel Taylor...

6) anadiplosis. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Inflected forms: pl. anˇaˇdiˇploˇses (-sz) Rhetorical repetition at the beginning of a phrase of the word or words with which the previous phrase ended; for example,...

7) exposition. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...1. A setting forth of meaning or intent. 2a. A statement or rhetorical discourse intended to give information about or an explanation of difficult material. b. The...

8) oxymoron. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Inflected forms: pl. oxˇyˇmoˇra (-mor, -mor) or oxˇyˇmoˇrons A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence...

9) understatement. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...statement that is less than complete. 2. Restraint or lack of emphasis in expression, as for rhetorical effect. 3. Restraint in artistic expression....

10) enthymeme. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...premises or the conclusion is not stated explicitly. Latin enthmma, from Greek enthmma, a rhetorical argument, from enthmeisthai, to consider : en-, in; see en-2...