rhetorical device vs polysyndeton

polysyndeton vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and polysyndeton both are nouns.

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

As nouns, polysyndeton is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, polysyndeton 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)
polysyndeton: using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in `he ran and jumped and laughed for joy')

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

rhetorical device (noun)	polysyndeton (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in `he ran and jumped and laughed for joy')

Difference between rhetorical device and polysyndeton

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