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litotes meaning in Hindi

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  1. The use of litotes is common in French.
  2. Litotes is a form of understatement, always deliberate and with the intention of emphasis.
  3. Old Norse had several types of litotes.
  4. The rhetorical term for this is litotes.
  5. Both the Anglo-Saxon use of litotes and the French-inspired refrain show up in the bob and wheel.
  6. There were also what I perceived to be a few peculiar litotes, which I changed to make slightly more palatable.
  7. One of the most famous litotes of French literature is in Pierre Corneille's " Le Cid " ( 1636 ).
  8. With the meaning " I completely agree ", Lowth would have been referring to litotes wherein two negatives simply cancel each other out.
  9. Understatement ( litotes ) is used at least 94 times in the Old English poem " Beowulf ", a " high frequency ".
  10. Critic William Sylvester states that the metaphors in Angelou's poetry serve as " coding ", or litotes, for meanings understood by other Blacks.

Meaning

noun.
  1. understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary); "saying `I was not a little upset'' when you mean `I was very upset'' is an example of litotes"
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