The difference between literary, rhetoric, linguistic, prosodic and visual devices (1 Viewer)

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Ugh, the branches of metalanguage confuse me, and searching them up on BoS, Wikipedia and Google confounded me even more. Let's use the example of an allusion; it can be a literary device used in text but can be a rhetoric device when used in speech, etc. I understand there is grey area between the terms, but it shouldn't confuse me that much.

Can someone please explain (in a simple fashion) what each of these language techniques are, and the similarities and differences among them, and whether any of the branches is a sub-branch of the other, or an umbrella term etc.

Literary Devices
Rhetoric Devices
Prosodic Devices
Linguistic Devices
Visual Devices (eg. Vectors, salient etc. not sure whether it's actually called visual)

Also, what is the difference between a technique, device and term, as well as stylistic and linguistic language devices? (Now even more confused.)

I apologise if my question is too complex, and thanks in advance to anyone who can answer them.
 

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