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Identify the figure of speech in the expression 'elderly infant'?

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Answered by Sidyandex
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Elderly infant can be categorised as a lilotes.

In lilotes an affirmative is conveyed by the negation of the opposite.

This is one of the figures of speech.

The other figures of speech are metonymy, exclamation, climax, anti climax.

Figures of speech depend on the kind of sentence and how it has been framed.

Answered by Anonymous
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The figure of speech is: litotes

It is a figure of speech in which ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary

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