A course of modern english lexicology

12. ENUMERATION

Enumeration is naming separate things, objects, ideas, phenomena, and actions one by one in chain.
The members of enumeration usually belong to the same part of speech, but different semantic classes.

Enumeration The principle production of these towns appears to be soldiers, sailors, chalk, shrimps, officers and dockyard men.

13. RHETORICAL QUESTION

A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in the form of a question without the expectation of a reply. It is posed for a persuasive effect.
Rhetorical questions encourage the listener to reflect on what the implied answer to the question must be. The answer is either supplied by the author, or left for the reader to guess.
Some rhetorical questions require no answer, while other rhetorical questions intend the communication of a “yes” or “no” answer. Sometimes, it may me “Yes, but I wish it were not so”, or “No, but I wish it were yes”.

Rhetorical question “no answer” How much longer must our people endure this injustice? “yes” Is the sky blue? Is the snow cold? “no” But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power? (Matthew Arnold)

14. STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS METHOD

Stream of consciousness is a narrative mode that seeks to portray an individual’s point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue, or in connection to his or her actions. Its aim is literally stenographing the working of a human mind. The greatest importance is given to character’s sensations and reactions as they arise in his mind with all their possible distant and inexplicable associations.