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Category: Rhetoric and Propaganda
Level: Grade 11
Author: parkere
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Grade 11 Rhetoric and Propaganda

A figure of speech in which a point is affirmed by negating its opposite. It is a special form of understatement, where the surface denial serves, through ironic contrast, to reinforce the underlying assertion.
  1. hyperbole
  2. litotes
  3. anastrophe
  4. chiasmus
  5. alliteration