rhetorical device vs antinomasia

antinomasia vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and antinomasia both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rhetorical device	Yes	No	No	No
antinomasia	Yes	No	No	No

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

rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
antinomasia: substitution of a title for a name

Other hyponyms of rhetorical device include anacoluthia, anacoluthon, asyndeton, repetition, anastrophe, inversion, antiphrasis, antithesis, 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, dialogism, epiphonema, antimetathesis.

rhetorical device (noun)	antinomasia (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	substitution of a title for a name

Difference between rhetorical device and antinomasia

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