rhetorical device vs image

image vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and image both are nouns.

rhetorical device is not a verb while image is a verb.

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

As nouns, image is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, image 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)
image: 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, figure of speech, trope, dialogism, epiphonema, antimetathesis.

rhetorical device (noun)	image (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
	a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
	(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
	the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public
	an iconic mental representation
	a standard or typical example
	language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
	(mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
	someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)

rhetorical device (verb)	image (verb)
	imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
	render visible, as by means of MRI

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