rhetorical device

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noun

a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
• Topics:
rhetoric
• Hypernyms:
device
• Hyponyms:
anacoluthia, anacoluthon, asyndeton, repetition, anastrophe,
inversion, antiphrasis, antithesis, antinomasia, apophasis, aposiopesis,
apostrophe, catachresis, chiasmus, climax, conversion, ecphonesis,
exclamation, emphasis, enallage, epanorthosis, epiplexis, hendiadys,
hypallage, hyperbaton, hypozeugma, hypozeuxis, hysteron proteron, litotes,
meiosis, onomatopoeia, paralepsis, paraleipsis, paralipsis, preterition,
paregmenon, polysyndeton, prolepsis, wellerism, trope, figure of speech,
figure, image
• Part Holonyms:
rhetoric