rhetorical device vs epiphonema

epiphonema vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and epiphonema both are nouns.

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

As nouns, epiphonema is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, epiphonema 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)
epiphonema: a sentence that is an exclamation, a general or striking comment, or a succinct summary of what has previously been said.

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, 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, antimetathesis.

rhetorical device (noun)	epiphonema (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	a sentence that is an exclamation, a general or striking comment, or a succinct summary of what has previously been said.

Difference between rhetorical device and epiphonema

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