Litotes :
صيغة بلاغية يعبر عن الموجب بضده المنفي
صيغة بلاغية يعبر عن الموجب بضده المنفي
صيغة بلاغية يعبر عن الموجب بضده المنفي
Noun(1) understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary
(1) The manager, a man adept in the use of litotes , said: ÔÇÿIt wasn't the best game of pure football in the world.ÔÇÿ(2) But, if we follow Schwarzbach, Dickens's description of the street mire in Holborn is, if anything, understated - ÔÇÿmudÔÇÖ is not hyperbole, but litotes .(3) First one must register his anti-Idealism, his antipathy toward the idea becoming metonymical litotes for such.(4) Yet this definition fails to explain instances of litotes , or understatement, which is often classified as a kind of irony.(5) Next thing you know, they'll be using dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes andÔǪ satire.
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1. meiosis ::
الانقسام الاختزالي
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1. meiosis ::
الانقسام الاختزالي
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