apostrophe vs litotes

apostrophe

noun
  • A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent. 

  • The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts. 

litotes

noun
  • An ironic figure of speech whereby something is stated by denying its opposite, particularly the negation of a negative quality to say something positive. 

How often have the words apostrophe and litotes occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )