rhetorical device vs hypozeuxis

hypozeuxis vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and hypozeuxis both are nouns.

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

As nouns, hypozeuxis is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, hypozeuxis 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)
hypozeuxis: use of a series of parallel clauses (as in `I came, I saw, I conquered')

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, 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)	hypozeuxis (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	use of a series of parallel clauses (as in `I came, I saw, I conquered')

Difference between rhetorical device and hypozeuxis

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