Excursis

(digressio, parecbasis)

An aside or digression from the main thread of story or argument.

Exouthenismos

A statement aiming scorn or contempt at something or someone.

Inter se pugnantia

An address or part of an address in the second person, directed at and usually admonishing an individual though addressing a crowd.

Mempsis

A complaint leading to a request

Merismus

Dividing the whole into parts

Optatio

A statement of desire, either for the future or a counterfactual – a wish that things might be or have been otherwise.

Paraenes

A prophecy or foretelling of doom.

Pauresis

An excuse.

Philophronesis

A conciliatory statement or statements designed to resolve conflict

Prolepsis

(procatalepsis)

A reference to the future using tenses of the past and present.

Protrope

the use of warnings, a threat, or when a promise is made in demanding participation in a particular action.

Sarcasm

A slight, an insult, or mocking speech

Syncrisis

A device in which two things are contrasted or compared in consecutive phrases of a sentence

Syngnome

A device by which forgiveness is expressed by a wronged part