rhetorical device vs meiosis

meiosis vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and meiosis both are nouns.

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

As nouns, meiosis is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, meiosis 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)
meiosis: 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, litotes, onomatopoeia, paraleipsis, paralepsis, paralipsis, preterition, paregmenon, polysyndeton, prolepsis, wellerism, figure, figure of speech, image, trope, dialogism, epiphonema, antimetathesis.

rhetorical device (noun)	meiosis (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)
	(genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)

Difference between rhetorical device and meiosis

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