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rhetorical device

 
Noun rhetorical device has 1 sense
  1. rhetorical device - a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
    --1 is a kind of
    device
    --1 is a part of rhetoric
    --1 has particulars:
     anacoluthia, anacoluthon; 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
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