Litotes

MALCOLM CAMPBELL AND KARSIN AND HER SON Jack Carter Litotes- understatement, for intensification, by denying the contrary of the thing being affirmed. Example: The ice cream was not too bad

You are not as young as you used to be

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Mnemonic Device: Light out... instead of (en)lightening the situation you are taking the light(LITE) out(OTE) of it by undertating the gravity of the situation

AMANDA DEVINE, BETHANIE DURHAM, AND OLIVIA WHITAKER

Litotes: Understatement, for intensification, by denying the contrary of the thing being affirmed.

Example:  William Shakespeare is not a bad playwright at all.

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Mnemonic Device:

totes => toe => under => understatement