Which statements use the rhetorical device of understatement? Choose two correct answers.

Understatement makes a serious situation sound less serious than it really is. In B, saying citizens “may be in trouble” downplays the danger of an uncontrolled wildfire. In E, calling two days “plenty of time” to solve global food insecurity deliberately minimizes an enormous, urgent problem. The other statements do not similarly understate the seriousness of a situation.

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