This question is based on Literary Principles.
'At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera.
But it was checked and in the end only seven thousand died of it in the army'.
Hemingway 'Farewell to Arms'
The passage above is an example of

A. hyperbolism
B. juxtaposition
C. understatement  
D. didactism

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Correct Answer: C