Figures of Thought

Adynaton

The impossibility of expressing oneself adequately to the topic
Words cannot convey how much your letters have delighted me.---Elementorum rhetorices libri, 44f

True or feigned doubt or deliberation about an issue
Whether he took them from his fellows more impudently, gave them to an harlot more lasciviously, removed them from the Roman people more wickedly or altered them more presumptuously, I cannot well declare.---The Garden of Eloquence, 109

A correction or revision of previous words Shameful it is--ay, if the fact be known...---The Rape of Lucrece, 239

Representing an imaginary or absent person as speaking or acting; attributing life, speech or inanimate qualities to dumb or inanimate objects
With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies,/ How silently, and with how wan a face!---Astrophil and Stella, 31

a diversion of discourse from the topic at hand to addressing some person or thing, either present or absent
Within a month.../ She married--O most wicked speed: to post/ With such dexterity to incestuous sheets...---Hamlet, 1.2.153