In which sentence is the literary device litotes used?

English

2 answers:

klio [65]3 years ago

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D. He commented that her house was no palace.

A litote is an understatement that expresses the affirmative by saying the negative of the contrary. The other statements are all just statements, they do not give any indication of a deeper level of meaning. Another example of a litote is: That wasn't the messiest house I've ever seen. In this statement, the house is being described as messy by saying that it is not.

Elenna [48]3 years ago

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Answer:

Letter D is the correct answer.

Explanation:

Litotes is a rhetorical device in which a positive sentence is expressed in the opposite way. In the letter D, we can infer the positive statement "her house was small", so the opposite of a small house would be a "palace", turning the positive statement into the one we can see in the sentence.

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