Ted Hughes's troubling fantasy for them The Iron Man, shows how the Goliath can remain potent in our
litotic age.
But when seen from a different perspective (and in this they reverse the
litotic model) they do just the opposite, distilling obedience into rebellion.
The second example, on the other hand, has nothing to do with the phenomena we have discussed in this study but is rather a
litotic affirmation of a positive resolution by negation of its opposite: na (nanu gani), a value which is insured by the immediately adjacent affirmative clause anu nu gamani.
and in the void and envy of being, which he translates into
litotic form in order to attack and punish the 'other.' But Othello is likewise imprisoned, in hyperbolic affirmation." (22)
The surety of the gingerbread house is replaced by "a new imprecision" as her
litotic revisions of what they had imagined as their future foreshadow her transformation:
The
litotic and onomatopoeic allusion to the sound of the train wheels passing "over" the sleepers (i.e., those already buried) is an ironic evocation of the apocalyptic gulag experience.
(c) presents an exact metaphorical opposition between animate and inanimate subjects (gavah/matayah), whereas (d) constitutes a
litotic tautology with a secondary opposition of gods and (human) offspring.