expressive style vs device

device vs expressive style

expressive style and device both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
expressive style	Yes	No	No	No
device	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, device is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, device is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than expressive style:

expressive style: a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
device: something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect

Other hyponyms of expressive style include allegory, analysis, bathos, black humor, black humour, eloquence, fluency, smoothness, euphuism, flatness, expression, formulation, grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric, headlinese, jargon, journalese, legalese, delivery, manner of speaking, speech, officialese, pathos, prose, rhetoric, coarseness, saltiness, self-expression, sesquipedality, terseness, turn of expression, turn of phrase, vein, verboseness, verbosity, genre, literary genre, writing style, poetry, digressiveness.

expressive style (noun)	device (noun)
a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period	any clever maneuver
	an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose
	an emblematic design (especially in heraldry)
	any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery)
	something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect

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