Definition: Is the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences, commonly in conjunction with climax and with parallelism.

Example: "In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books I foresee things to come; in books warlike affairs are set forth; from books come forth the laws of peace." -Richard de Bury

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Definition: deliberately expresses an idea as less important than it actually is, either for ironic emphasis or for politeness and tact.

Example: 

"I think there's a problem between Shias and Sunnis.” -Egyptian Prime Minister, BBC World Service

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Term: The insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence.      

Example: Those two spots are among the darkest of our whole civilization-pardon me, our whole culture (an important distinction, I've heard) which might sound like a hoax, or a contradiction, but that (by contradiction, I mean) is how the world moves: not like an arrow, but a boomerang. -Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man 

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