Denise came in from shoveling snow in the driveway. Her lips were blue, her nose was red, and there were little icicles on her eyelashes. “I may have to skip a swim in the lake today,” she told her mother. Which literary device did the author use in the passage? a. understatement b. irony c. hyperbole d. allegory

understatement

Explanation:

This is an understatement because Denise, according to the description, looks and feels really sick. On top of that, she looks as if she is about to get frostbite. She is no doubt going to have to skip a swim in the lake today, as well as other precautions for when people are sick, such as take medicine or stay in bed all day, which makes her saying an understatement.

i got you covered.. i will do my best

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.