Writing Rhetorical Devices

Do you know your antimetabole from your zuegmas? If so, you're all set for the Rhetoric Test Robert Harris offers on his site about de virtues of devices. I'm not sure this would have helped me when I searched for the name of the little quotations or thingies writers sometimes put at the beginnings of chapters (see, I've forgotten the name AGAIN!) Harris just lists sixty rhetorical devices with links to a page of explanations, but that in itself is interesting to read. You might learn of a "trick" to use "to improve the effectiveness, clarity, and enjoyment of your writing." This is part of style, Harris says:

While style is probably best learned through wide reading, comprehensive analysis and thorough practice, much can be discovered about effective writing through the study of some of the common and traditional devices of style and arrangement. By learning, practicing, altering, and perfecting them, and by testing their effects and nuances for yourself, these devices will help you to express yourself better and also teach you to see the interrelatedness of form and meaning, and the psychology of syntax, metaphor, and diction both in your own writing and in the works of others.

Which is the academic equivalent of "how to spark up your works".