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rhetorical device
Overview of noun rhetorical-device
The noun rhetorical device has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. rhetorical device -- (a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance))
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rhetorical-device
1 sense of rhetorical device
Sense 1
rhetorical device
=> device
=> expressive style, style
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun rhetorical-device
1 sense of rhetorical device
Sense 1
rhetorical device
=> 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
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rhetorical-device
1 sense of rhetorical device
Sense 1
rhetorical device
=> device
Antonyms of noun rhetorical-device
Member Holonyms of noun rhetorical-device
Substance Holonyms of noun rhetorical-device
Part Holonyms of noun rhetorical-device
1 sense of rhetorical device
Sense 1
rhetorical device
PART OF: rhetoric
Member Meronyms of noun rhetorical-device
Substance Meronyms of noun rhetorical-device
Part Meronyms of noun rhetorical-device
Meronyms of noun rhetorical-device
Holonyms of noun rhetorical-device
1 sense of rhetorical device
Sense 1
rhetorical device
PART OF: rhetoric
Attributes of noun rhetorical-device
Derived Forms of noun rhetorical-device
Domain of noun rhetorical-device
1 sense of rhetorical device
Sense 1
rhetorical device
TOPIC>(noun) rhetoric#4
Domain Terms of noun rhetorical-device
Familiarity of noun rhetorical-device
rhetorical device used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun rhetorical-device
1 sense of rhetorical device
Sense 1
rhetorical device
> device
=> conceit
=> rhetorical device
Meronyms of noun rhetorical-device
1 sense of rhetorical device
Holonyms of noun rhetorical-device
1 sense of rhetorical device
Sense 1
rhetorical device
PART OF: rhetoric
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