====== 緩叙法・曲言法 (litotes) ====== |< 60% 30%>| ^ Page Type | Category | ^ Category ID | litotes | ^ Superordiantes | | ^ Synonyms | | ==Definition== 事物を控え目に言い,かえって表現を効果的にする言い方 ==Subordinate Categories== {{topic>category:litotes +index:category}} ==Features== ==Functions== ==History and Related Terms== * [[http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/L/litotes.htm|『Silva Rhetoricae』で調べる]] * [[https://www.fukirhetoric.com/example/litotes1.html|『ふき出しのレトリック』で調べる]] ==Examples in the Literature== * not half bad (=very good)(大いに) == References == * 『大修館英語学事典』(松浪有・池上嘉彦・今井邦彦[編] /大修館) == Examples in the Corpus == {{count>category:litotes&ex}} {{topic>category:litotes +index:ex}} {{tag>index:category }}