Term: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
Broader: device: something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect | Unrelated: wood mouse: any of various New World woodland mice
Broader: device: something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect | Unrelated: picture postcard: a postcard with a picture on one side
Broader: device: something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect | Unrelated: marumi: shrub bearing round-fruited kumquats
Broader: device: something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect | Unrelated: lobbying expense: expenses incurred in promoting or evaluating legislation
Broader: device: something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect | Unrelated: womankind: women as distinguished from men
Broader: device: something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect | Unrelated: 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
Broader: device: something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect | Unrelated: naproxen sodium: a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks Aleve and Anaprox and Aflaxen) that fights pain and inflammation
Broader: device: something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect | Unrelated: rye: the seed of the cereal grass
Broader: device: something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect | Unrelated: commission on human rights: the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with human rights
Broader: device: something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect | Unrelated: poterium: a genus of thorny herbs or shrubs of the family Rosaceae