Answer:An understatement usually has an ironic effect, as an equally intense response is expected in severe situations, but the statement in response is the opposite of what was expected. For instance, your friend returns your new coat with a large wine stain on the front of it.
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The colon is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots centered on the same vertical line.
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
The personal problem that Milton examined in his poem Lycidas is how to deal with the loss of loved ones.
He wrote in that poem about his best friend who died, so it is a sort of a manual on how to get over your grief as well. It is an ode to his best friend whom he lost and couldn't forget, so he decided to commemorate him in a poem and thus he will live forever through art. 
        
             
        
        
        
Umm am doing the same it’s a final for me lol