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Definition of Rhetorical device
1. Noun. A use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance).
Generic synonyms: Device
Group relationships: Rhetoric
Specialized synonyms: 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, Paraleipsis, Paralepsis, Paralipsis, Preterition, Paregmenon, Polysyndeton, Prolepsis, Wellerism, Figure, Figure Of Speech, Image, Trope
Definition of Rhetorical device
1. Noun. A phrase (set phrase or created phrase) that uses reduplication, onomatopoeia, or other phonetic markers that increase memorability and “musicality” (making rhetoric pleasing or entertaining). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhetorical Device
Literary usage of Rhetorical device
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rhetorical Studies in the Arbitration Scene of Menander's Epitrepontes by James Wilfred Cohoon (1915)
"In the present 68 It will contribute to clearness if we always bear in mind that
any rhetorical device and any rhetorical failure can be viewed from two ..."
2. The Theatre of Violence: Narratives of Protagonists in the South African by Don Foster, Paul Haupt, Maresa de Beer (2005)
"Both Ann and Chris use the rhetorical device of three-line repetition to emphasise
their ... Here he employs a commonly used rhetorical device, extreme case ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Better than any other Latin writer he used the periodic form of sentence, not as
a mere rhetorical device, but as a suitable expression for a complete ..."
4. The Rhetorical Principles of Narration by Carroll Lewis Maxcy (1911)
"Asyndeton may be considered as a rhetorical device to secure emphasis, and, being
a device, is a deviation from the normal method of writing, ..."
5. The King's English by Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1906)
"... drawn between the rhetorical and the non-rhetorical: they differ in origin
and in aim, one being an ancient rhetorical device to secure impressiveness, ..."
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