rhetorical device vs apophasis

apophasis vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and apophasis both are nouns.

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

As nouns, apophasis is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, apophasis 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)
apophasis: mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned

Other hyponyms of rhetorical device include anacoluthia, anacoluthon, asyndeton, repetition, anastrophe, inversion, antiphrasis, antithesis, antinomasia, 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)	apophasis (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned

Difference between rhetorical device and apophasis

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