litotes definition and examples
Common Litotes Examples. In everyday life, it is common to experience litotes in conversations although not many people are aware of this term and its usage. Below are a few examples of litotes from daily conversations: 1  They do not seem the happiest couple around. 2  The ice cream was not too bad.unction of Litotes. Litotes uses ironical understatement in order to emphasize an idea or situation rather than minimizing its importance. It rather discovers a unique way to attract peopleâs attention to an idea and that is by ignoring it.
Definition. Litotes is a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.Plural: litotes. Adjective: litotic.  Litotes describes the object to which it refers not directly, but through the negation of the opposite. . . .  2 The account given in various rhetorical textbooks reveals a picture of the rhetorical figure litotes which is--to put it aptly--'not very clear.' . . .