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The document defines and provides examples of the literary device of understatement. It explains that an understatement usually has an ironic effect, as a more intense response is expected in severe situations but an understatement provides the opposite response. Examples of understatements in everyday life and literature are given, such as saying a meeting "could have been worse" after everything went wrong or one of Professor McGonagall

Author

Khánh Trình

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EN