rhetorical device vs hysteron proteron

hysteron proteron vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and hysteron proteron both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rhetorical device	Yes	No	No	No
hysteron proteron	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hysteron proteron is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, hysteron proteron 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)
hysteron proteron: reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc. (as in `bred and born')

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, litotes, meiosis, onomatopoeia, paraleipsis, paralepsis, paralipsis, preterition, paregmenon, polysyndeton, prolepsis, wellerism, figure, figure of speech, image, trope, dialogism, epiphonema, antimetathesis.

rhetorical device (noun)	hysteron proteron (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	the logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be proved
	reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc. (as in `bred and born')

Difference between rhetorical device and hysteron proteron

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