rhetorical device

“With ekphrasis (or ecphrasis), an essentially rhetorical device in which an object formed in one art becomes the matter for another, the theory only apparently changes or takes on another dimension.”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas

“Ascribing the rising violence to the supposed increasing desperation of the insurgents would become a standard rhetorical device of the administration.”

Simon & Schuster: The Longest War

“Of particular relevance to ut pictura poesis, how - ever, is the rhetorical device of ekphrasis and “icon,” since both were used to designate a description of a work of art following the εἰκόνεσ (“icon”) of Philostratus”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas

““pictorialism” developed from being an occasional rhetorical device into almost the dominating matter of a poem.”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas