Take a look at this comprehensive list of stylistic devices and see if any might work in your current WIP (work in progress).
1. Adnomination Repetition of words with the same root. The difference lies in one sound or letter. A nice euphony can be achieved by using this poetic device. Examples: "Nobody loves no one." (Chris Isaak). Someone, somewhere, wants something.
2. Allegory Representation of ideas through a certain form (character, event, etc.). Allegory can convey hidden meanings through symbolic figures, actions, and imagery. Example: Animal Farm by George Orwell is all about the Russian Revolution. And characters stand for working and upper classes, military forces, and political leaders.
3. Alliteration The repeated sound of the first consonant in a series of words, or the repetition of the same sounds of the same kind at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables of a phrase. Examples: A lazy lying lion. Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers. Sally sells seashells by the seashore. 4. Allusion Reference to a myth, character, literary work, work of art, or an event. Example: I feel like I'm going down the rabbit hole (an allusion to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll).
5. Anaphora Word repetition at the beginnings of sentences in order to give emphasis to them. Example: "Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California." (Martin Luther King) Opposite: Epiphora. Word repetition at the end of sentences. Example: "And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." (Abraham Lincoln)
6. Antithesis Emphasizing contrast between two things or fictional characters. Example: "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) 7. Apostrophe Directed speech to someone who is not present or to an object. Example: "Work on, my medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught." (William Shakespeare)
8. Assonance Repetition of vowels in order to create internal rhyming. Example: "Hear the mellow wedding bells." (Edgar Allan Poe) Related: Consonance. Repetition of consonants. 9. Cataphora Mentioning of the person or object further in the discourse. Examples: I met him yesterday, your boyfriend who was wearing the cool hat. If you want some, here's some cheese. After he had received his orders, the soldier left the barracks.
10. Climax
Arranging text in such a manner that tension gradually ascends.
Example. He was a not bad listener, a good speaker and an amazing performer.
Opposite: Anticlimax. Tension descends.
11. Charactonym (or Speaking Name)
Giving fictional characters names that describe them.
Example: Scrooge, Snow White.
12. Ellipsis
Word or phrase omission.
Example: I speak lots of languages, but you only speak two (languages).
13. Euphemism
Replacing offensive or combinations of words with lighter equivalents.
