rhetorical device vs onomatopoeia

onomatopoeia vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and onomatopoeia both are nouns.

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

As nouns, onomatopoeia is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, onomatopoeia 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)
onomatopoeia: using words that imitate the sound they denote

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

rhetorical device (noun)	onomatopoeia (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	using words that imitate the sound they denote

Difference between rhetorical device and onomatopoeia

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