Rhetorical Devices Used in Historic Speeches: Examples of Greco-Roman .
Modern orators often used rhetorical devices perfected in antiquity. . for "plainness") refers to the deliberate use of understatement for rhetorical effect. .　->

Microsoft Word - Document2
litotes a trope; deliberate understatement. . deliberate deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words for rhetorical effect. .　->

Hecht's Web Site -- Figures of Speech
The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several . understatement. Restraint or lack of emphasis in expression, as for rhetorical effect. .　->

Definition of 'understatement'
Crossword Clue Solver is the crossword solver for you, providing crossword help for those pesky clues in . deliberate understatement for rhetorical effect .　->

Rhetorical Devices
Personification is giving human characteristics to inanimate objects for a heightened effect. . Litotes is the deliberate use of understatement .　->

Especially for Teachers | NIE WORLD
Litotes: the use of deliberate understatement for emphasis or effect. . Rhetorical Question: asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an .　->

Teachers' Resource Web Maintained by Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D.
Litotes: deliberate use of understatement (487) Rhetorical question: asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an .　->

English Rules Figures of Speech - Writing Guide
hyperbole: deliberate exaggeration for effect, usually for emphasis. . Example (rhetorical - ironic understatement): Michael Jordan was okay at basketball. .　->

selfreliance2.doc
Asyndeton – deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses . Hyperbole: exaggeration for rhetorical effect .　->

RHETORICAL FIGURES
deliberate exaggeration of the truth for rhetorical (often hostile) effect: . (exadversio): a kind of understatement (an inverse of hyperbole), depending upon .　->