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Brennan Costa
21 August, 12:36
What is understatment?
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Diva
21 August, 12:45
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Answer: Understatement is a form of speech or disclosure which contains an expression of lesser strength than what would be expected. It is the opposite of an embellishment. The rhetorical form of understatement is litotes in which understatement is used for emphasis and irony.
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Tanya Jefferson
21 August, 14:46
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the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.
"a master of English understatement"
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