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English noun: rhetorical device | |||
| 1. | rhetorical device (communication) a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | device | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | anacoluthia, anacoluthon, anastrophe, antinomasia, antiphrasis, antithesis, apophasis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, asyndeton, catachresis, chiasmus, climax, conversion, ecphonesis, emphasis, enallage, epanorthosis, epiplexis, exclamation, figure, figure of speech, hendiadys, hypallage, hyperbaton, hypozeugma, hypozeuxis, hysteron proteron, image, inversion, litotes, meiosis, onomatopoeia, paraleipsis, paralepsis, paralipsis, paregmenon, polysyndeton, preterition, prolepsis, repetition, trope, wellerism | ||
| Part meronym | rhetoric | ||
| Domain category | rhetoric | ||
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