rhetorical device vs antiphrasis

antiphrasis vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and antiphrasis both are nouns.

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

As nouns, antiphrasis is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, antiphrasis 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)
antiphrasis: the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony)

Other hyponyms of rhetorical device include anacoluthia, anacoluthon, asyndeton, repetition, anastrophe, inversion, antithesis, antinomasia, 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)	antiphrasis (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony)

Difference between rhetorical device and antiphrasis

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