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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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