Literary understatement - Crossword Clue

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7 letter answer(s) to literary understatement

LITOTES
  1. understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary); "saying `I was not a little upset' when you mean `I was very upset' is an example of litotes"

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Literary understatement'

Figure of speech like "no
Ironical understatement
It downplays setter getting eaten by 50 bears
Little child in stories making understatement
Might such rhetoric be no great shakes?
Small amount of drink mopped up by a tissue, falsely? That's an understatement
T S Eliot's quirky figure of speech
Toilets revolting; and that's an understatement
Understatement

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