rhetorical device vs figure of speech

figure of speech vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and figure of speech both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rhetorical device	Yes	No	No	No
figure of speech	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, figure of speech is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, figure of speech 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)
figure of speech: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

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, image, trope, dialogism, epiphonema, antimetathesis.

rhetorical device (noun)	figure of speech (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

Difference between rhetorical device and figure of speech

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