Bathos
Bathos noun - The state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion).
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Litotes
Litotes noun - Understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary).
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Dinsdale Piranha is incredibly violent but his brother Doug is far more terrifying because he used...sarcasm.Luigi Vercotti: [visibly shaken] He knew all the tricks — dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and satire.
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