rhetorical device (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 10
def a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
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Hypernym device
Part holonym rhetoric
Domain of synset - TOPIC rhetoric
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; trope, figure of speech, figure, image
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Member of this domain - TOPIC rhetoric
Hyponym device
Part meronym rhetoric
Hypernym 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

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