rhetorical device, n.
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
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rhetorical device
semantic pointers
domain of synset (topic)
hypernym
part holonym
hyponym
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
figure of speech, image, trope, figure