tS=She examines the major rhetorical strategies deployed in Senegalese discourse, focusing on grandiloquence, <b>litotes</b>, and repetition.<br><br>Sometimes a <b>litotes</b> provides a nice touch, lending a judicial tone to the expression of opinion.&tQ=<b>Litotes</b> refers to:&tC=The use of euphemisms|A mid-sentence verb change|An unintentional rhyme|Intentional repetition|Negative understatement&cC=5&fB=<b>Litotes</b> refers to a negative understatement, a figure of speech that makes an assertion by denying its opposite, damning with faint praise or praising with faint damns. Examples of <b>litotes</b> are:"It wasn't a bad movie." "It was no small feat." "She is not unlike her mother." <b>Litotes</b> is pronounced LY-tote-es.
