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Which literary technique does the poet use in these lines from Beowulf?

That [sword] was not useless
to the warrior now.

A.
caesura
B.
alliteration
C.
litotes
D.
kennings

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Answer:

the answer is litotes

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Answer:

The correct answer is litotes.

Step-by-step explanation:

It is a rhetorical figure, related to irony and euphemism, by which something is affirmed, reduced or contradicted the opposite of what you want to affirm.

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