Term: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
Candidate hypernym: device: something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect → 1
Candidate hypernym: wood mouse: any of various New World woodland mice → 0
Candidate hypernym: picture postcard: a postcard with a picture on one side → 0
Candidate hypernym: marumi: shrub bearing round-fruited kumquats → 0
Candidate hypernym: lobbying expense: expenses incurred in promoting or evaluating legislation → 0
Candidate hypernym: womankind: women as distinguished from men → 0
Candidate hypernym: royal society: an honorary English society (formalized in 1660 and given a royal charter by Charles II in 1662) through which the British government has supported science → 0
Candidate hypernym: naproxen sodium: a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks Aleve and Anaprox and Aflaxen) that fights pain and inflammation → 0
Candidate hypernym: rye: the seed of the cereal grass → 0
Candidate hypernym: commission on human rights: the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with human rights → 0
Candidate hypernym: poterium: a genus of thorny herbs or shrubs of the family Rosaceae → 0