Dendrographia-- creating an illusion of reality through vivid description of a tree:
He sits down at the base. Its trunk is thick and confident with boughs that sway heavily in the wind; yet in the right light, its gold leaves shimmer like glass and fall fragilely to the ground.
Scheme-- an artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words:
(In Yoda's voice) "When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not, hmmm?"
Litotes-- Deliberate understatement, especially when expressing a thought by denying its opposite:
It's not that there's anything "wrong" with you, exactly. All I'm trying to say is...you're kind of a giant bitch.Intimation-- Hinting at a meaning but not stating it explicitly:
Alright, alright, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it in that way. It's just that -- if I were to ever see you stranded on the side of the highway during a rainstorm, I would probably swerve and hit all the mud puddles as fast as I can.
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