In rhetoric, meiosis is a euphemistic figure of speech that intentionally understates something or implies that it is lesser in significance or size than...

A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is a word or phrase that intentionally deviates from straightforward language use or literal meaning to produce...

opposite of auxesis in its climactic sense Catacosmesis, a form of anticlimax Figure of speech Banter Meiosis and litotes, the opposite of auxesis in...

holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." Litotes Meiosis (figure of speech) Cuddon, J.A., ed. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. 3rd...

" Hyperbole Litotes Meiosis (figure of speech) Minimisation (psychology) Meyer H. Abrams and Geoffrey Galt Harpham. A Glossary of Literary Terms, 11th...

steaming at the ears! Adynaton, an impossible form of hyperbole Figure of speech Litotes and meiosis, forms of deliberate understatement Tautology (language)...

also known classically as antenantiosis or moderatour, is a figure of speech and form of irony in which understatement is used to emphasize a point by...

random event during the formation of sperm cells. An incident in chromosome separation during anaphase II (of meiosis II) called nondisjunction can result...

'Every beginning is difficult.'" (Rhetorica ad Herennium) Meiosis – a euphemistic figure of speech that intentionally understates something or implies that...

subtype of understatement is litotes, which uses negation: Heatwaves are not rare in the summer. Irony is the figure of speech where the words of a speaker...

rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off...

duplications or inversions in genetic material during meiosis. Hence, a substantial fraction of autism cases may be traceable to genetic causes that are...

alleles between the chromosomes. This process of chromosomal crossover generally occurs during meiosis, a series of cell divisions that creates haploid cells...

thickness, and oocyte meiosis, as well as brain size and functioning. There are signals of positive selection, as the result of adaptation to diverse...