rhetorical device vs epanorthosis

epanorthosis vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and epanorthosis both are nouns.

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

As nouns, epanorthosis is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, epanorthosis 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)
epanorthosis: immediate rephrasing for intensification or justification

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, enallage, 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)	epanorthosis (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	immediate rephrasing for intensification or justification

Difference between rhetorical device and epanorthosis

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