Which figure of speech is used in this text?
It was August 30, 2005. Hurricane Katrina had come and gone, the levees had been breached, and it was a bit wet in New Orleans.
A: assonance
B: understatement
The text uses understatement, which involves deliberately representing something as less serious or important than it really is.
It was a bit wet in New Orleans is an understatement, since nearly eighty percent of the city was under water following the hurricane.