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1What figurative language refers to a mild negative understatement intended to suggest a strong affirmative?

2Involves minimizing the importance of something/is a special kind of understatement which involves expressing a positive sentence using its negative form

3An example of this device is shown below:"He's no fool."

4Identify the figurative language used in this line, I am not as bad as you think.

5"It's not the best weather today" What kind of figure of speech is the statement above?

6"The night in prison was novel and interesting enough" is an example of .....

7Fill in the blank: Litotes is .....

8What is this expression doing?It was quite boring.

9An understatement for emphasis, usually an assertion of something by denying the opposite.

10Litotes is .....

11The opposite of hyperbole, is ....., or an exaggerated understatement.

12He's not the worst singer I've heard.

13In Greek, litotes means