Meaning of RHETORICAL DEVICE

WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  (rhetoric) a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
	See Also:		anacoluthia, anacoluthon, anastrophe, antinomasia, antiphrasis, antithesis, apophasis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, catachresis, chiasmus, climax, conversion, device, ecphonesis, emphasis, enallage, epanorthosis, epiplexis, exclamation, figure, figure of speech, hendiadys, hypallage, hyperbaton, hypozeugma, hypozeuxis, hysteron proteron, image, inversion, litotes, meiosis, onomatopoeia, paraleipsis, paralepsis, paralipsis, paregmenon, polysyndeton, preterition, prolepsis, repetition, rhetoric, trope, wellerism