rhetorical device vs prolepsis

prolepsis vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and prolepsis both are nouns.

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

As nouns, prolepsis is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, prolepsis 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)
prolepsis: anticipating and answering objections in advance

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

rhetorical device (noun)	prolepsis (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	anticipating and answering objections in advance

Difference between rhetorical device and prolepsis

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