rhetorical device vs wellerism

wellerism vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and wellerism both are nouns.

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

As nouns, wellerism is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, wellerism 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)
wellerism: a comparison comprising a well-known quotation followed by a facetious sequel

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

rhetorical device (noun)	wellerism (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	a comparison comprising a well-known quotation followed by a facetious sequel

Difference between rhetorical device and wellerism

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