-An example of an author using litotes is in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Holden states, "It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain." Although a tumor in the brain is very serious, he tries to make it seem like it really isn't that bad.
-In the book Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, the author uses litotes in the quote, “They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now." He uses litotes to imply that these savages were basically dead and living for nothing by saying they are not earthly.
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