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Festschrift to honor F. Wilbur Gingrich: lexicographer, ...
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 ...
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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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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Milton, Rights and Liberties
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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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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Performing Prose: The Study and Practice of Style in Composition
Hyperbole's complement is litotes, or deliberate understatement. Like hyperbole,
litotes creates a disjunction between a statement and the thing, person, or event
to which it refers (that is, a disjunction between form and content). But in this ...
Chris Holcomb, M. Jimmie Killingsworth,
2010
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Handbook of Literary Rhetoric: A Foundation for Literary Study
H') litotes (§§ 586-588) 586. Litotes is a periphrastic combination of emphasis (cf.
§ 578) and irony (cf. § 582): the superlative degree of meaning intended in the
voluntas (cf. § 200) is described by the negation of its opposite: "not small" for the
...
Heinrich Lausberg, David E. Orton, R. Dean Anderson,
1998
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Negation: A Notion in Focus
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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Thucydides Between History and Literature
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
ȘTIRI NOI CARE INCLUD TERMENUL «LITOTES»
Află ce ziare naționale și internaționale au scris despre și cum este întrebuințat termenul
litotes în contextul următoarelor știri.
Meet Scotland's gourmet salt pioneer
If it's true that one of the characteristics of the Gael is litotes - a tendency towards understatement - then it's also true that it rubs off on incomers. Arriving on our ... «Herald Scotland, Iul 15»
Dichtung, die leichte Übertreibung
Der Tagebuchschreiber verknüpft diese Erinnerung mit einem ästhetischen Versuch über das empfindliche Gleichgewicht, das Litotes und Hyperbel, die ... «DIE WELT, Iun 15»
"Venezuela: Pablo Iglesias empleó la técnica de la litotes o …
Este domingo 3 mayo 2015 Álex Grijelmo titula Venezuela, cuestión de gustos su Punta de la lengua en El País. Qué difícil es condenar algo sin condenarlo. «Periodista Digital, Mai 15»
Franz Kafka: Nichts ist eindeutig
Die bis in die Alltagssprache reichende doppelte Verneinung („nichtuninteressant“) wird im Begriff der Litotes gefasst. Diesen Terminus greift Prof. Mathias ... «Augsburger Allgemeine, Mar 15»
Litotes: the most common rhetorical device you've never heard of
David Cameron may not want to debate head-to-head with Ed Miliband, but both men are happy to deploy litotes: one of the stealth bombers of the rhetorical ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»
Wine etiquette at dinner parties — and 'tacky' birthday events
The word “cliché” becomes a litotes on these embarrassing occasions. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2015. You may share using our article tools. «Financial Times, Feb 15»
Litotes for Beauty
Similes, litotes, oxymorons, and hyperbole: Mr. Ockman clearly has it out for me. Is it a theme set? Well, yes: they're all different examples of linguistic tropes. «New York Times, Dec 14»
The hyperbole we love to hate
There's a bizarre footnote to the story of hyperbole, which is that of its cousin, litotes, or understatement. Sometimes it can better serve a speaker's purpose to ... «The Guardian, Nov 14»
The Myth of the Apophatic Areopagite
Negative theology is thus an exercise in hyperbole, not litotes, multiplication, not subtraction. There is always more God to know, but that does not invalidate ... «First Things, Oct 14»
Double Whammy
"Certainly there's nothing in here that I don't think works and is right for Wisconsin," she continues, inadvertently slipping into litotes. "And so this is much ado ... «Wall Street Journal, Sep 14»