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What form of rhetoric is this quote?

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3mb3rRios | 19:48 Sun 23rd Oct 2011 | Phrases & Sayings
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"moreover, the catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented; and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable."
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There can be very fine lines in trying to categorise different forms of rhetoric making labeling difficult. Have a go here...

http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm
16:50 Tue 25th Oct 2011
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Hyperbolic litotes!! I agree with heathfield, it is a mix of forms of rhetoric.
12:32 Wed 02nd Nov 2011

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