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Providing an instance of litotes, a former English teacher of mine once remarked, "I would not say that he was the dullest of scientists."— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
Slang is sometimes characterized by understatement -- litotes, if you want the literary term for the device.— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1
Yet most of it is poetic -- at least in the sense that it makes greater than ordinary use of poetical devices like litotes, hyperbole, and, above all, metaphor.— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1
Wot, no distinction between meiosis and litotes, or iambus and spondee?— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 3
(they will confuse these two), ellipsis ... probably oxymoron, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, and litotes, too.— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
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