Literature

Literature

Of or pertaining to the art of writing in any form or style, most especially published works.

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anticlimax

Literature; Literary techniques

Anticlimax refers to a figure of speech in which statements gradually descend in order of importance. Unlike climax, anticlimax is the arrangement of a series of words, phrases, ...

understatement

Literature; Literary techniques

Understatement is a device that deliberately weakens a statement to sound ironical or softens it to sound more polite. Understatement is a common feature of the English language ...