How To Use Litotes In A Sentence
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Yet this definition fails to explain instances of litotes, or understatement, which is often classified as a kind of irony.
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At first called litotes or meiosis, such understatement came to be called irony, at least by the end of the sixteenth century.
IRONY
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I'm not obscenely uneducated, but I had to look up "litotes".
Steve Janke and dead, sodomized hookers? Hey, I'm just sayin'.
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Concerning the classification of enantiosis in rhetoric, the theoretical definitions of " litotes " and "irony" are somewhat different from the people's perception.
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Next thing you know, they'll be using dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and… satire.
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V. -- I pardon this epitrope, but pray use less metaphor and more litotes in the prosopography you dedicate to my modest entity --
Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside
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Belated kudos to ricky p., on that splendid "litotes" analogy.
Your Right Hand Thief
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Concerning the classification of enantiosis in rhetoric, the theoretical definitions of " litotes " and "irony" are somewhat different from the people's perception.
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But, if we follow Schwarzbach, Dickens's description of the street mire in Holborn is, if anything, understated - ‘mud’ is not hyperbole, but litotes.
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They could be employing the subtle literary device of "litotes".
A tidying-up exercise
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saying `I was not a little upset' when you mean `I was very upset' is an example of litotes
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Next thing you know, they'll be using dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and… satire.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synec-doche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes-the whole bag of tricks.
The Two Malcontents
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For readers too young to remember Dangerfield, that's not litotes.
President Dangerfield
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The manager, a man adept in the use of litotes, said: ‘It wasn't the best game of pure football in the world.‘
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This construction is technically called litotes; it's a form of deliberate understatement that is often used comically.
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In a rare experiment with litotes he said: We could have bowled better; we should have bowled differently.
Mechanical bowling to blame for England breakdown | Vic Marks
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A factually accurate restatement of my position, but a kind of litotes, like saying Lucy Liu is not very hideous at all.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Would the Public Support “Cap and Refund”?
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First one must register his anti-Idealism, his antipathy toward the idea becoming metonymical litotes for such.
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How many even know the meaning of anaphora, antimetabole or litotes?
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