rhetorical device vs hyperbaton

hyperbaton vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and hyperbaton both are nouns.

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

As nouns, hyperbaton is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, hyperbaton 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)
hyperbaton: reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love')

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, 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)	hyperbaton (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love')

Difference between rhetorical device and hyperbaton

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