Nurse: His name is Romeo, and a Montague, The only son of your great enemy. Juliet: My only love sprung from my only hate Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy. ---Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet The Child is father of the Man. ---Wordsworth My Heart Leaps Up (从小孩现在的表现可以预见他成人后的情况；或一切认知 源于儿童时期)

In overstatement (hyperbole), the diction exaggerates the subject. eg. 1) She is dying to know what job has been assigned her. 2) Those three words (Dombay and Son) conveyed the one idea of Mr. Dombay’s life. The earth was made for Dombay and Son to trade in and the sun and moon were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships; rainbows gave them promise of air weather; winds blew for or against their enterprises; stars and plants circled in their orbits to preserve inviolate a system of which they were the centre. ----Dombay and Son
Understatement(间接肯定法)
D. Menial jobs or professions of low social standing dustman---sanitation worker E. Political and military activities concentration camps---strategic villages or hamlets
e.g.2) His designs were strictly honorable, as the saying is, that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. ---Henry Fielding Tom Jones
3. Overstatement(夸张)
10. euphemism(委婉语)

Euphemism is the substitution of a mild or vague expression for a harsh or unpleasant one. A. death, illness, old age, etc. to die----- to pass away; to depart; to go to sleep; to go to heaven, to breathe one’s last… B. Toilet habits, etc. lavatory----bathroom; men’s (women’s) room C. Poverty and unemployment the poor----the have-nots; the underprivileged; the disadvantaged
2. irony(反讽)

Irony is a figure of speech that achieves emphasis by saying the opposite of what is meant, the intended meaning of the words being the opposite of their usual sense. e.g.1） “Generally speaking,” said Miss Murdstone, “I don’t like boys. How d’ye do, boy?” Under these encouraging circumstances, I replied that I was very well, and that I hoped she was the same, with such indifferent grace that Miss Murdstone disposed of me in two words,--- “Wants manner!” Dickens: David Copperfield1. PΒιβλιοθήκη radox(悖论，似非而是的说法)

A paradox is a figure of speech consisting of a statement or proposition which on the face of it seems selfcontradictory, absurd or contrary to established fact or practice, but which on further thinking and study may prove to be true, well-founded, and even to contain a succinct point.