Which figure of speech is used in this text?
. . . the report of my death was an exaggeration.
—Mark Twain, in a notice that appeared in the New York Journal

 - understatement
 - anaphora
The text uses understatement, which involves deliberately representing something as less serious or important than it really is.
Exaggeration is an understatement, since the report was in fact totally inaccurate.