rhetorical device vs paregmenon

paregmenon vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and paregmenon both are nouns.

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

As nouns, paregmenon is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, paregmenon 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)
paregmenon: juxtaposing words having a common derivation (as in `sense and sensibility')

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, polysyndeton, prolepsis, wellerism, figure, figure of speech, image, trope, dialogism, epiphonema, antimetathesis.

rhetorical device (noun)	paregmenon (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	juxtaposing words having a common derivation (as in `sense and sensibility')

Difference between rhetorical device and paregmenon

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