rhetorical device vs repetition

repetition vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and repetition both are nouns.

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

As nouns, repetition is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, repetition 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)
repetition: the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device

Other hyponyms of rhetorical device include anacoluthia, anacoluthon, asyndeton, 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, prolepsis, wellerism, figure, figure of speech, image, trope, dialogism, epiphonema, antimetathesis.

rhetorical device (noun)	repetition (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	the act of doing or performing again
	the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device
	an event that repeats

Difference between rhetorical device and repetition

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