Prompt: Use a hyperbole, an understatement, and a litotes to describe today's lesson.

 Prompt Response: Today's lesson was out of this world, It was just a comprehensive lesson on a simple tool to help me improve my writing by an incredibly large margin, nothing too serious. The lesson was not that difficult to fully comprehend either.


Summary: Learned about the rhetoric devices hyperbole, understatement and litotes.


Reflection: I learned that litotes are commonly used by inserting negations into statements. Knowing this will help improve my writing as I progress throughout my life.

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