#rhetorical_device  a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
  supertype:  device.expressive_style  something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect
  subtype:  anacoluthia  repetition  anastrophe  antiphrasis  antithesis.rhetorical_device  antinomasia  apophasis  aposiopesis  apostrophe.rhetorical_device  catachresis  chiasmus  climax  conversion.rhetorical_device  ecphonesis  emphasis  enallage  epanorthosis  epiplexis  hendiadys  hypallage  hyperbaton  hypozeugma  hypozeuxis  hysteron_proteron.rhetorical_device  litotes  onomatopoeia  paralepsis  paregmenon  polysyndeton  prolepsis  wellerism  trope
  part of:  rhetoric.expressive_style  using language effectively to please or persuade

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