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The use of understatement for effect (‘He is no Einstein’ = ‘He is a bit dim’). It is the opposite of hyperbole.
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1991 [1989]:33) qualifies all basic kinds of figurative speech as flouting maxims: irony, metaphor, hyperbole and litote violate the Maxim of Quality, quasi-tautologies (Boys are boys; Women are women; War is war), by some other authors (e.
On the similarity and distinguishability of humour and figurative ... by Krikmann, Arvo / Trames
1-2); (11) it then follows with an extremely elaborate rhetorical pattern, made up of anaphora, protracted parallelism (on one occasion of nine lines), litotes, and antithesis.
The defence of religious orthodoxy in John Heywood's The Pardoner and ... by Caputo, Nicoletta / Yearbook of English Studies
The judicious English rendering of litotes comes through well.
Floridoro: A Chivalric Romance by Hester, Nathalie / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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