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Festschrift to honor F. Wilbur Gingrich: lexicographer, ... - Halaman 58
LITOTES IN ACTS Henry J. Cadbury The Oxford English Dictionary defines 'litotes' as "a figure of speech in which an affirmation is expressed by the negative of the contrary." It continues by giving as examples, not of the word but of the ...
Eugene Howard Barth, Ronald Edwin Cocroft,
1972
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Rhetorical Devices: A Handbook and Activities for Student ...
Device #3 Litotes: What you'll learn in this section isn't bad. Litotes, similar to understatement, emphasizes its point by using a word opposite to the condition. For example, rather than say, “The trip across the mountain was a hard journey,” we ...
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Romanticism and the Rise of English
metaphors) because they seemed dispensable, flourishes that stood in the way of communication. even when they acknowledged the virtues of figurative language, they included strict rules for using it correctly.15 cowper uses litotes in The ...
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Milton, Rights and Liberties - Halaman 516
Space prevents me doing more here24 than to offer two distinctive features of the epistle which match those of ^/-Milton in the Defences; one is the peculiar penchant for litotes, and the other is that for the word duntaxat. Litotes makes a double ...
Christophe Tournu, Neil Forsyth,
2007
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Adjective Intensification: Learners Versus Native Speakers ...
9.4. Towards. Quantifying. the. Notion. of. Overstatement. 9.4.1. Hyperbole,. Litotes. and. Intensification. Intensification has in previous chapters been associated with the Gricean maxims of Quantity and Relevance. It is a formal device for ...
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Chaim Perelman - Halaman 119
It did occur to me that in 1856, when I was exerting every nerve and every energy for James Buchanan, then standing on that identical platform I was on that I was a pretty good Democrat. (Lincoln-Douglas 335) Litotes is understatement that ...
Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin,
2003
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Blessed Excess: Religion and the Hyperbolic Imagination
..Hyperbole deflated by litotes: He was not even moving. Note that the litotes counters the hyperbole without completely denying it, because the litotes also does not mean what it says. In fact, the litotes, in this example, is very close to irony, ...
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Negation: A Notion in Focus - Halaman 155
Why not investigate whether the same approach works for litotes as well? That is to say, let me pursue the possibility that litotes may in principle occur in all types of negative contexts.' In other words, I will assume that the hypothesis in (18) be ...
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The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of ...
Litotes is a complicated beast. It's closely related to the doublenegative, but it's not quite the same. Leaving no stone unturned is not litotes, because it has no understatement toit.When Shakespeare wrotein The Tempest,“Ihave no hope that ...
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Thucydides Between History and Literature - Halaman 364
In this passage where we find three litotes, the ex— pression 00K 01Tsu<0Twg plays an essential role, similar to that referred to with the litotes 00X 1"]K10T0r, in that the insistence on the logical nature of the sequence of events necessitates ...
Antonis Tsakmakis, Melina Tamiolaki,
2013