Meaning

1 senses
  1. A phrase (set phrase or created phrase) that uses reduplication, onomatopoeia, or other phonetic markers that increase memorability and “musicality” (making rhetoric pleasing or entertaining).

    Hilfsmittel

    приёмprijóm, фигу́раfigúra, сре́дствоsrédstvo

More definitions
  • a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Jews aren't a rhetorical device.

    deJuden sind kein rhetorisches Mittel. — Vortarulo

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Translations

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Forms

plural: rhetorical devices

See also

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