#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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