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Other crossword clues for answer "LITOTES"

LITOTES
Understated figure of speech, in rhetoric
... using ___: "Mary had no giant lamb / Its fleece was not unwhite"
Rhetorical device like "not half bad" or "not too shabby"
Understatement: A figure of speech.
Rhetorical form.
Affirmation by the negation of the opposite.
Rhetorical understatement.
Rhetorical expression such as "not bad at all."
A citizen of no mean city.
Understatement to increase effect.
Understatement: Rhet.
Understatement for effect
Figure of speech like "no mean feat"
Not too shabby and "no ordinary love," e.g.
Not too bad for "very good"
Hamlet's not a bad play e.g.
Figure of speech that employs ironic understatement