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A litote, as we find it persistently in the greatest of all French writers--in Racine--is the tightly, densely concentrated expression of some central immensity, or even enormity, in human recognitions and emotions.

sententia (the Latin name for a one-sentence dictum or proposition)

"semiotics" (which is the systematic investigation of signs and symbols)

a baroque sforzando quavering to rest in the image