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Flauer [41]
3 years ago
15

What is an understatement that expresses the affirmative by saying the negative of the contrary called?

English
2 answers:
olga55 [171]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

The correct answer is Litotes

Explanation:

Litotes is a figure of speech,  phrase  that have different meaning than its literal meanings, that employs  the opposite expressions' negative in order to express  positive statements. In other words, <em>Litotes expresses the affirmative by saying the negative of the contrary.</em>

For instance the expression <em>“She is not as beauty as she used to be”</em> is a Litotes used  to avoid saying <em>"She looks ugly now"</em>.

denis-greek [22]3 years ago
3 0
Litotes is a ronical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary
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