rhetorical device vs ecphonesis

ecphonesis vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and ecphonesis both are nouns.

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

As nouns, ecphonesis is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, ecphonesis 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)
ecphonesis: an exclamatory rhetorical device

Other hyponyms of rhetorical device include anacoluthia, anacoluthon, asyndeton, repetition, anastrophe, inversion, antiphrasis, antithesis, antinomasia, apophasis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, catachresis, chiasmus, climax, conversion, 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)	ecphonesis (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	an exclamatory rhetorical device

Difference between rhetorical device and ecphonesis

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