rhetorical device vs aposiopesis

aposiopesis vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and aposiopesis both are nouns.

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

As nouns, aposiopesis is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, aposiopesis 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)
aposiopesis: breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations)

Other hyponyms of rhetorical device include anacoluthia, anacoluthon, asyndeton, repetition, anastrophe, inversion, antiphrasis, antithesis, antinomasia, apophasis, 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)	aposiopesis (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations)

Difference between rhetorical device and aposiopesis

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