rhetorical device vs epiplexis

epiplexis vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and epiplexis both are nouns.

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

As nouns, epiplexis is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, epiplexis 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)
epiplexis: a rhetorical device in which the speaker reproaches the audience in order to incite or convince them

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, 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)	epiplexis (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	a rhetorical device in which the speaker reproaches the audience in order to incite or convince them

Difference between rhetorical device and epiplexis

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