This Chicken's Sure a Character

Appeal to Ethos - one of Aristotle's three persuasive appeals, ethos can be translated as "reputation" or "character."   An appeal of this type refers to one's strong reputation or character to persuade.

We are America, and America has favorite sections.

A gift

Paradiastole - euphemistically naming a vice or virtue

Your belly ring, left on my desk, reminds me that attention to hygiene, although seemingly essential to function, is easily overlooked.

Slurs

Circumlocution - talking around a subject

He admitted it-- he said he was like that guy who played the bad guy in the second movie, the spy satire, who was just the same actor in a suit that made him appear larger.  And he had an accent too... it was from the British Isles.  Except the two actors had different accents from different isles.  I could give hints; I just couldn't bring myself to say the name.