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Which of these phrases is an example of understatement? A. I just love it when my baby brother wakes me up crying at all hours of the night! B. I was so excited about the news that I screamed for hours! C. The full scholarship I received for college is O.K., I guess. D. My sister first met her husband in Africa, even though he grew up a block away from us in Cleveland.

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The answer is C: The full scholarship I received for college is O.K., I guess.

An understatement is a statement, usually charged with a strong ironic element that underplays the significance of a thing or event by phrasing it through a less relevant expression. In this case, receiving a full scholarship, which is quite remarkable and it would be, under any standards, quite an outstanding event in anybody´s life, is expressed as being merely ok.

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