rhetorical device vs exclamation

exclamation vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and exclamation both are nouns.

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

As nouns, exclamation is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, exclamation 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)
exclamation: 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, ecphonesis, 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)	exclamation (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	an abrupt excited utterance
	an exclamatory rhetorical device
	a loud complaint or protest or reproach

Difference between rhetorical device and exclamation

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