rhetorical device vs climax

climax vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and climax both are nouns.

rhetorical device is not a verb while climax is a verb.

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

As nouns, climax is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, climax 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)
climax: arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness

Other hyponyms of rhetorical device include anacoluthia, anacoluthon, asyndeton, repetition, anastrophe, inversion, antiphrasis, antithesis, antinomasia, apophasis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, catachresis, chiasmus, 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)	climax (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
	the decisive moment in a novel or play
	arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
	the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
	the most severe stage of a disease

rhetorical device (verb)	climax (verb)
	end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage

Difference between rhetorical device and climax

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