WordNet: rhetorical device

a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)

• domain: topic rhetoric

• hypernym device

• hyponym anacoluthia, anacoluthon

• hyponym asyndeton

• hyponym repetition

• hyponym anastrophe, inversion

• hyponym antiphrasis

• hyponym antithesis

• hyponym antinomasia

• hyponym apophasis

• hyponym aposiopesis

• hyponym apostrophe

• hyponym catachresis

• hyponym chiasmus

• hyponym climax

• hyponym conversion

• hyponym ecphonesis, exclamation

• hyponym emphasis

• hyponym enallage

• hyponym epanorthosis

• hyponym epiplexis

• hyponym hendiadys

• hyponym hypallage

• hyponym hyperbaton

• hyponym hypozeugma

• hyponym hypozeuxis

• hyponym hysteron proteron

• hyponym litotes, meiosis

• hyponym onomatopoeia

• hyponym paraleipsis, paralepsis, paralipsis, preterition

• hyponym paregmenon

• hyponym polysyndeton

• hyponym prolepsis

• hyponym wellerism

• hyponym figure, figure of speech, image, trope

• part holonym rhetoric

rhetorical device

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