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.
<span>An understatement that expresses the affirmative by saying the negative of the contrary is called a litote. It is a figure of speech considered to be the opposite of the hyperbole.</span>
The answer is A-the tension between Gabriel and the family
that's the answer because Gabriel gets made at john because roy got injured and tries to beat john but the mother intervenes and that made Gabriel made at the whole family and made it and extremely unsafe place to be.
