rhetorical device vs enallage

enallage vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and enallage both are nouns.

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

As nouns, enallage is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, enallage 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)
enallage: a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I')

Other hyponyms of rhetorical device include anacoluthia, anacoluthon, asyndeton, repetition, anastrophe, inversion, antiphrasis, antithesis, antinomasia, apophasis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, catachresis, chiasmus, climax, conversion, ecphonesis, exclamation, emphasis, 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)	enallage (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I')

Difference between rhetorical device and enallage

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