1. Madison Mertz, Jenardis Mountain, Seth McLendon
Rhetorical Devices
Madison Mertz, Jenardis Mountain, Seth McLendon

2. Chiasmus (kaɪˈæzməs)
A chiasmus is a type of balance in which the second part is balanced against the first, but with the part reversed. This means that basically you would just turn the sentence around.
Pronounced: (kaɪˈæzməs)

3. You forget what you wanna remember and remember what you wanna forget
Chiasmus Example 1
You forget what you wanna remember and remember what you wanna forget

4. Chiasmus example 2
“Do I love you because you’re beautiful? Or are you beautiful because I love you?”

5. Oxymoron
A self-contradicory combination of words or smaller verbal units usually noun-noun, adjective-adjective, adjective-noun, adverb-adverb, adverb-verb

6. Oxymoron example Alone together Civil war Clearly misunderstood
Crash landing

7. More examples!! Devout atheist Impossible solution Living dead
Seriously funny
Unbiased opinion

8. Janus words
Janus words are any word that can have contradictory meanings. These words are similar to oxymoron except oxymorons are two words that are self contradictory but Janus words are one word with two contradictory meanings

9. Litotes
A form of understatement in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite
Pronounced: (laɪˈtoʊˌtiz)

10. Litotes examples
Ferris does not have what we consider to be an exemplary attendance record

11. Litotes examples
You are not unwelcome
No ordinary city