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good morning I am interested in the position and would like to know
litote
A litote is an understatement that expresses the affirmative by saying the negative of the contrary. This is a wordy definition that can make it difficult to understand. Here are a few examples:
That wasn't the messiest house I've ever seen. - This sentence says that the house is messy by saying the contrary - that it's not messy.
The poem "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost has a litote because it says that the world being destroyed would be "great" and "would suffice". He doesn't actually think this to be true.
Answer:
The underlined words in the passage are...
pour down, left bare, die, made muddy, drowned, flooded, filled with the salt water
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