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Asyndeton
Conjunctions are omitted, producing a fast-paced and rapid prose.
I came, I saw, I conquered
But in a larger sentence we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.
Ellipses
The deliberate omission of a word or words that are readily implied by he context.
"This room was chill,because it seldom had a fire; it was silent because [it was] remote from the nursery and kitchens,[it was] solemn, because it was known to be so seldom entered."
Polysyndenton
The use of many conjunctions has the opposite effect; it slows the pace of the writjng
I kept remembering everything, laying in my bed in the mornings - the small steamboat that had a long rounded stern like the lip of a Ubangi, and how quickly she ran on the moon light sails, when the older boys plaid their mandolins and the girls sang and we ate doughnuts dipped in sugar, and how the sweet music was on the water in the shining night, and what it had felt like to think about girls then.
Anaphora
The repetition of the same word At the beginning of successive phrases or phrase
Problem gives rise to problem
Epanalepsis
The repetition of a word at both the beginning and end of a sentence
Epistrophe
The repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses(it is the opposite of an anaphora)
"And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you"
Antimetabole
The arrangements of ideas in the second clause is a reversal of the first; it adds power through its inverse repetition
Spare me your words; words are not what I need
Anadiplosis
The rhetorical repetition of a word or phrase that ends one phrase at the beginning of the next phrase
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