what literary device is cicero referring to in De Oratore when he describes dissimulation as "saying one thing and signifying another"?

Irony.

Explanation:

Irony is the literary device that refers to the use of words to express one thing by using the opposite or words contrary to the literal meaning. In other words, the irony is when one thing is said but it means the opposite thing.

In his "De Oratore", Cicero states that "dissimulation [is] the humor of saying one thing and signifying another, which steals into the minds of men in a peculiar manner, and which is extremely pleasing when it is well managed, not in a vehement strain of language, but in a conversational style." And in this expression, the phrase "saying one thing and signifying another" refers to the literary device of irony.

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        its hard for some people to get along and that’s the case for douglass and canot. most of the time when people do not agree with each other its because they have different presperctives, and that is the case here.

captain canot was never a slave so but he was a slaver and a slave ship captain and just like the slave master's he tought it was it was totally normal, he used captain conot is a cruel man who enjoys whipping slaves but never   got whipped he saw it has a destiny for the slave to be a slave and the slaver to be a slaver   but douglass has suffered whoppings cut   even for no reason sometimes. douglass believed that slavery was not natural to black people, they need to study and learn how to read and write. he knew they have rights.

it was really not the captain’s fault he was just brainwashed by the system and when your brainwashed by the system its hard not to be brainwashed. but the reason douglass wants this is because he has suffered he knows how it feels and will do anything to stop that.