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