| 1. | The use of litotes is common in French.
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| 2. | Litotes is a form of understatement, always deliberate and with the intention of emphasis.
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| 3. | Old Norse had several types of litotes.
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| 4. | The rhetorical term for this is litotes.
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| 5. | Both the Anglo-Saxon use of litotes and the French-inspired refrain show up in the bob and wheel.
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| 6. | There were also what I perceived to be a few peculiar litotes, which I changed to make slightly more palatable.
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| 7. | One of the most famous litotes of French literature is in Pierre Corneille's " Le Cid " ( 1636 ).
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| 8. | With the meaning " I completely agree ", Lowth would have been referring to litotes wherein two negatives simply cancel each other out.
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| 9. | Understatement ( litotes ) is used at least 94 times in the Old English poem " Beowulf ", a " high frequency ".
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| 10. | Critic William Sylvester states that the metaphors in Angelou's poetry serve as " coding ", or litotes, for meanings understood by other Blacks.
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