Litotes

• Litotes is the use of understatement to emphasise a positive by using a negative to make the understatement.
• For example: It’s not rocket science. Litotes is the opposite of Hyperbole.

Hyperbole

• Hyperbole refers to an exaggerated overstatement that is not meant to be taken literally.
• For example, ‘I’ve told you a thousand times no.’

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