Showing posts with label Litote in poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Litote in poetry. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Backward Glance

Sanaa offers quite the dVerse challenge today! Poetry utilizing the litote! A figure of speech; a rhetorical device used to make an understatement by negating the opposite of the intended message; in other words, a nice way to soften a blunt statement. I chose to write a narrative where the main character stands out.

Masks on Fire, March 25, 2022 ~~ Our driveway

I felt no remorse

no unrepentant guilt 

tossing what felt like 

hundreds of  

unused masks 

into that roaring fire!