单词 | litotes |
例句 | It's outlined in general and unemotional terms in the climactic sixth and seventh stanzas, with a faint touch of extra-dry humour in the litotes of "pointed questions", "whoever they had come to see", etc. Poem of the week: The Overcoat by Peter McDonald 2013-04-15T09:51:10Z V.—I pardon this epitrope, but pray use less metaphor and more litotes in the prosopography you dedicate to my modest entity— J.—What will you? Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside The use of tmesis, asyndeton, anacoluthon, aposiopesis, hyperbaton, hyperbole, litotes, in Latin oratory and poetry. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius It is also a specimen of the Greek figure "litotes." A Woman-Hater |
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