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Sorry, I just read Gordon's message.
Christine
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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gordon Hultberg
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 2:24 PM
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Subject: Re: request--name for a type of negative
You are looking for "litotes" (my mnemonic, perhaps not technically quite
accurate, way of recalling this is "Negation of the opposite")--Hawthorne
and Austen use them frequently, of those authors I teach regularly.
At 12:08 PM 06/21/2005, you wrote:
>Hello All,
>Hope you're enjoying a wonderful summer. A friend
>asked me for the name of a negative like Jane Austen
>uses: "It was not impossible" versus "It was
>possible."
>Thank you,
>Mary Murray
>
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