#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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