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Subject:Re: needed: antonym for hyperbole From:Joanna Sheldon <cjs10 -at- CORNELL -dot- EDU> Date:Wed, 5 Jun 1996 05:30:35 -0400
At 02:25 05/06/96 -0400, David wrote:
>Karen Otto writes:
>> We're looking for an antyonym for hyperbole
>>
>> Any ideas?
>meiosis. In rhetoric, a kind of understatement that dismisses or belittles,
>especially by using terms that make something seem less significant than it
>really is or ought to be: for example, calling a serious wound a _scratch_,
>or a journalist a _hack_ or a _scribbler_.
>litotes. In rhetoric a positive and often emphatic statement made by denying
<...>
How about something a little more common? I suggest "understatement".
Joanna
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