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A double negative is a construction occurring when two forms of grammatical negation are used in the same sentence. This is typically used to convey a different shade of meaning from a strictly positive sentence ("You're not unattractive" vs "You're attractive").
In rhetoric, litotes (/ l aɪ ˈ t oʊ t iː z, ˈ l aɪ t ə t iː z /, US: / ˈ l ɪ t ə t iː z /), [1] 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 stating a negative to further affirm a positive, often incorporating double negatives for effect.
Negative (photography), an image with inverted luminance or a strip of film with such an image; Original camera negative, the film in a motion picture camera which captures the original image; Paper negative, a negative image printed on paper used to create the final print of a photograph
The French actress Sarah Bernhardt was considered insufficiently understated in English terms. Photograph by Félix Nadar, c. 1864. This attitude of understatement was exemplified by a comment upon Sarah Bernhardt's violent depiction of Cleopatra in the 1891 play of that title: "How different, how very different, from the home life of our own dear Queen!"
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In linguistics, a polarity item is a lexical item that is associated with affirmation or negation.An affirmation is a positive polarity item, abbreviated PPI or AFF.A negation is a negative polarity item, abbreviated NPI or NEG.
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