rhetorical device vs asyndeton

asyndeton vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and asyndeton both are nouns.

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

As nouns, asyndeton is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, asyndeton 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)
asyndeton: the omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used

Other hyponyms of rhetorical device include anacoluthia, anacoluthon, repetition, anastrophe, inversion, antiphrasis, 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)	asyndeton (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	the omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used

Difference between rhetorical device and asyndeton

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