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By: Vikas Ralmilay
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An understatement for rhetorical effect achieved when using negation in position of using an antonym of that term. Function: to achieve rhetorical effect, retain the effect of understatement, or to intensify an expression. Examples: Intense heat is very common in desert. Intense heat is not rare in desert. No small victory. “I wasn’t a little upset”, instead of “I was very upset”.
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Is the recurrence of initial consonant sounds or the combination of two or more words with same consonant sound or sound group. Function : to unite or combine words and similar concepts through repetition and emphasize a particular thing. Examples: William went walking. “Hot-hearted Beowulf was bent upon battle” - Beowulf. She sells seashells by the seashore. “I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet” – Robert Frost
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Work created to ridicule a style, literary form, or subject by trivial ways or by discussing the trivial in exalted terms with mock dignity. (imitation) Much like parody. Function: is to imitate mockingly or humorously at a subject or matter. Examples: "always bringing junk... home, as if he were burlesquing his role as provider" -John Updike The Beggar’s Opera- John Gay
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