rhetorical device vs trope

trope vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and trope both are nouns.

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

As nouns, trope is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, trope 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)
trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

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

rhetorical device (noun)	trope (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

Difference between rhetorical device and trope

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