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Speaker, audience, message are also known as...
Ethos, pathos, logos
"I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain."
Understatement
When I was a child,
I spoke as a child,
I understood as a child,
I thought as a child.
Epistrophe
"I refuse to discuss the rumor that my opponent is a drunk."
Anapophasis
I finally found escape in the abandoned barn. The torrential rain was rapid machine-gun fire echoing threats of my destruction.
Metaphor
"From the earth thou springest/Like a cloud of fire"
Simile
“I guess that’s just my cross to bear.”
Allusion
“The manor– designed for beauty and grace, built for durability and strength, and located for privacy and safety– was the ideal home for those three children.”
Parallelism
An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was thick, warm, heavy, sluggish.
Asyndeton
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Juxtaposition
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary…”
Alitteration
My hair has been nailed back with my mother’s black hair pins to my skull. Her hands stretched my eyes open as she twisted braids into a tight circle at the nape of my neck.
Hyperbole
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers.”
Polysyndeton
“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it.”
Amplification
“In education we find the measure of our own ignorance; in ignorance we find the beginning of wisdom.”
Anadiplosis
If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison
us, do we not die?
Rhetorical Question
The rain was indifferent to their plans, and continued to race out of the clouds as if it had places to go.
Personification
"Many are the pains and perils to be passed,
But great is the gain and glory at the last."
Antanagoge
“Mankind must put an end to war – or war will put an end to mankind.”
Chiasmus
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies.
Hypophora
“Exhaustion is a thin blanket tattered with bullet holes.”
Metaphor
I should just march right down--oh, just forget it!
Anacoluthon
It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place.
Anaphora
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
Parallelism
“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
Paradox