1. By: Vikas Ralmilay

2.  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”.

3.  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

4.  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

5.  "Examples of Alliteration Poems." YourDictionary. LoveToKnow, n.d. Web. 28 January 2012..  Harris, Robert A. "Rhetoric6." VirtualSalt. Web. 06 Feb. 2012..  "Litotes." Examples Help. Web. 06 Feb. 2012..