repetition of beginnings

ex: "It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place."

arrangement by reversal of order

ex: "Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer."

repetition of a word in different senses

ex: "People on the go... go for Coke."

repetition of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order

ex: "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; Plymouth Rock landed on us."

repetition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition

ex: "The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression."

omission of conjunction from clauses

ex: "He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac."

arrangement by ascending importance

ex: "All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, all our ignorance brings us nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer than God."

repetition of ideas in inverted order

ex: "I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me."

omission

ex: "An evil witch, a tap-dancing scarecrow, flying monkeys, an emotionally unstable lion, disturbing Munchkins... Dorothy couldn't help but wonder if, in the wonderful Land of Oz, they sold guns."

addition by correction (sometimes in form of parenthesis)

ex: "Thence have I followed it

(Or it hath drawn me, rather) but 'tis gone."

repetition immediately

ex: "Strong men also cry. Strong men also cry."

asking a question to affirm or deny a point

ex: "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"

repetition of grammatical forms

ex: "Nothing that's beautiful hides its face. Nothing that's honest hides its name."

addition of a "pop-up" idea

ex: "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more plausible.)"

addition of conjunctions

ex: "It is respectable to have no illusions-- and safe-- and profitable-- and dull."

omission of a verb from parallel clauses

ex: "You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit."