rhetorical device vs litotes

litotes vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and litotes both are nouns.

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

As nouns, litotes is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, litotes 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)
litotes: understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)

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

rhetorical device (noun)	litotes (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)

Difference between rhetorical device and litotes

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