Came frightful days of snow and rain. (Inversion)

Syntactical Stylistic Devices

1. " How much longer must our people endure this injustice?" (Rhetorical question)

2. I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. (O.Wilde) (Ordinary repetition)

3. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity (недоверие; неверие; скептицизм), it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way... (Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities) (Anaphora)

Came frightful days of snow and rain. (Inversion)

5. "...ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. " (John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961) (Chiasmus / Reversed parallel construction)

6.... this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish (пропадать) from the earth. (Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address) (Epiphora)

7. Now he understood. He understood many things. (P.Abrahams) (Reduplication /Anadiplosis)

8. Bella soaped his face and rubbed his face, and soaped his hands and rubbed his hands, and splashed him, and rinsed him, and towelled him, until he was as red as beetroot. (Ch.Dickens) (Polysyndeton + Parallel construction / Parallelism)

9. " Aren't you glad you use Dial?
Don't you wish everybody did?"
(1960s television advertisement for Dial soap) (Rhetorical question)

10. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. (The Apostle Paul, in the Bible, 1 Cor 13:1) (Epiphora)

11. "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." (Yoda, Star Wars) (Reduplication /Anadiplosis)

12. " The inherent (неотъемлемый) vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessing; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." (Churchill) (Parallel construction / Parallelism)

13. Soams turned away; he had an utter disinclination to talk. (Asyndeton)

14. "Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music and music is the best." (Frank Zappa) (Reduplication /Anadiplosis)

15. ‘Stop!’she cried. ‘Don’t tell me! I don’t want to hear; I don’t want to hear what you’ve come for. I don’t want to hear. ’ (Ordinary repetition)

16. Then there was something between them. There was. There was. (T.Dreiser) (Framing)

17. "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. " (Benjamin Franklin) (Chiasmus / Reversed parallel construction)

18. "What I present here is what I remember of the letter, and what I remember of the letter I remember verbatim (дословно) (including that awful French)." (Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita) (Reduplication /Anadiplosis)

19. " Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. " (John F. Kennedy) (Chiasmus / Reversed parallel construction)

20. Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition! (William Shakespeare) (Anaphora)

21. He was the foreigner, the outlander, the Yankee, who had come into our country. (W.Faulkner “An Error In Chemistry”) (Synonymic repetition)

22. Grandma Simpson and Lisa are singing Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" ("How many roads must a man walk down/Before you call him a man?"). Homer overhears and says, "Eight!"
Lisa: "That was a rhetorical question!"
Homer: "Oh. Then, seven!"
Lisa: "Do you even know what 'rhetorical' means?"
Homer: "Do I know what 'rhetorical' means?"
(The Simpsons, "When Grandma Simpson Returns") (Rhetorical question)

23. Women are not made for attack. Wait they must. (J.Conrad) (Inversion)

24. "There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem. " (Lyndon B. Johnson in "We Shall Overcome") (Epiphora)

25. And a great desire for peace, peace of no matter what kind, swept (охватило) through her. (A.Bennet) (Reduplication /Anadiplosis)

26. "Some people use change to promote their careers; other people use their careers to promote change. " (Sarah Palin) (Chiasmus / Reversed parallel construction)

27. By the time he had got all the bottles and dishes and knives and forks and glasses and plates and spoons and things piled up on big trays, he was getting very hot, and red in the face, and annoyed. (Tolkien) (Polysyndeton)

28. We shall not flag (поднимать флаг) or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender. (Winston Churchill) (Anaphora)

29. "They say money don't make the man but man, I'm makin' money. " (Tupac Shakur in the song "Thug Passion") (Chiasmus / Reversed parallel construction)

30. To a medical student the final examinations are something like death... (R.Gordon) (Inversion)

31. Obviously – this is a streptococcal infection. Obviously. (W.Deeping) (Framing)

32. "We also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance (упорство; настойчивость; стойкость); perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us." (Romans 5:3-5) (Reduplication /Anadiplosis)

33. I notice that father’s is a large hand, but never a heavy one when it touches me, and that father’s is a rough voice but never an angry one when it speaks to me. (T.Dreiser) (Parallel construction / Parallelism)

34. "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. " (Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself) (Chiasmus / Reversed parallel construction)

We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary. (Malcolm X) (Anaphora)

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us. " (Ralph Waldo Emerson) (Epiphora)

"Strength through unity, unity through faith." (Chancellor Adam Sutler, V for Vendetta) (Reduplication /Anadiplosis)

"They call for you: The general who became a slave; the slave who became a gladiator; the gladiator who defied an Emperor. Striking story." (Commodus, Gladiator) (Reduplication /Anadiplosis)

"People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power. " (Bill Clinton at the 2008 Democratic National Convention) (Chiasmus / Reversed parallel construction)

In peace sons bury their fathers,

But in war fathers bury their sons. (Chiasmus / Reversed parallel construction)

"If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?"
(Billy Corgan) (Rhetorical question)