Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Paper 2
Revise: 1st Date – She and 1st Date – HeThe man makes a matching excuse: ‘It wasn’t entirely untrue.’ in He, line 4. These negative constructions use litotes, a form of understatement that expresses something by denying its opposite. Rather than admitting straightforwardly that they misled each other, both speakers carefully defend their versions of the truth.
- Revise: Stewart Island
An expression that deliberately makes an experience seem less dramatic or important than it might be.