Climax , arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance. But alas . . . Simile an explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common. Most often marked by the use of like or as. Synecdoche a part stands for the whole.
Puns play on words antanaclasis repetiion of a word in two different senses.
But lest I should be condemned of introducing license, when I oppose licensing, . . . Marshall McLuhan Syllepsis use of a word understood differently in relation to two or more other words which it modifies or governs. There is a certain type of woman who d rather press grapes than clothes. Personification investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities or attributes. Hyperbole exaggerated terms for emphasis.