rhetorical device vs chiasmus

chiasmus vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and chiasmus both are nouns.

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

As nouns, chiasmus is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, chiasmus 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)
chiasmus: inversion in the second of two parallel phrases

Other hyponyms of rhetorical device include anacoluthia, anacoluthon, asyndeton, repetition, anastrophe, inversion, antiphrasis, antithesis, antinomasia, apophasis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, catachresis, 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)	chiasmus (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	inversion in the second of two parallel phrases

Difference between rhetorical device and chiasmus

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