emotive language

rule of three

anecdote

disguised directive

imperative

hyperbole

paradox

irony

religious reference

received pronunciation

para-linguistics

aporia

balancing statement

taboo

divergence

convergence

questions

tag questions

overlapping

interruptions

emphasis

status words

initiation response feedback

jargon

specialist lexis

instrumental power

pronouns

pathos

logos

ethos

parallelism

boosters

metaphor

accent

mitigation

complex sentences

passive resistance

volume and pitch

rhetoric

rhetorical question

setting the agenda

holding the term

colloquialisms

register