Anaphora

a NA pho ra

Repetition of beginnings

"I don't like you sucking around, bothering our citizens, Lebowski. I don't like your jerk-off name. I don't like your jerk-off face. I don't like your jerk-off behavior, and I don't like you, jerk-off."

Anastrophe

a NAS tro phe

Arrangement by reversal of order

"Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. . . . This one a long time have I watched. . . . Never his mind on where he was."

Antanaclasis

ANT a na CLASS is

Repetition in different senses

"If you don’t look good, we don’t look good."

Antimetabole

AN ti me TA bo lee

Repetiton of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order

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

Antithesis

an TI the sis

Repetition of words or ideas in contrasting  juxtaposition

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing."

Asyndeton

a SYN de ton

Omission of conjunctions from clauses

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

Auxesis

aux EE sis

Arrangement by ascending importance

"It's a well hit ball, it's a long drive, it might be, it could be, it IS . . . a home run."

Chiasmus

ki AZ mus

Repetition of ideas in inverted order

"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."

Ellipsis

el LIP sis

Omission

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
 

Epanorthhosis

EP a NOR tho sis

Addition by correction (sometimes form of parenthesis)

"With a heave of his chest, Croker rose and came walking--or, rather, limping--toward him."