Well, I'm glad this happened, cause I was really running out of things to talk about. I am no longer limited to exposing hyperbole, but I can use other rhetorical devices, or I can even comment on op-eds, maybe combine both and see the devices in op-eds!
Now that I can write about such a wide range of things, I found myself wondering what should I start with. Just so that I clear this thing with overstatements out, I think that I should shine a light on the so different on the outside, yet so amazingly similar in the purpose: understatement.
We use this to present something demeaning its extent or value, but making it so obvious that the reader understands the actual magnitude of the subject discussed.
The example used in my class when explaining this was: "Bill Gates has a bit of money!"
This is like saying: "There are a couple of people who know 'bout Brangelina!".
Putting it in context, on a stormy day a person can state "It's just some rain, out there." or on a scorching day use "Mildly warm"!
Now that we got the basics we can later dwell on more complicated or subtler uses of this device.
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