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some to write, these are mon。 he who loses a friend loses more。 what they like is to be a man’s last romance. Contrast ? A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. Antithesis ? Feature: contrast in meaning, parelell in structure ? Knowledge make humble, ignorance make proud. ? …the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material porsperity. Antithesis ? The life of the wolf is the death of the lamb. ? Short accounts make long friends ? Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. ? Where there ‘s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ? If the economy stays down, can conservatives stay up? Oxymoron ? Features: contradictory in meaning ? The plexity of things ? Example: ? A cheerful pessimist ? Painful pleasure ? A thunderous silence Oxymoron ? It (New York) has the poorest millionaires, the littlest great men, the haughtiest beggars, the plainest beauties, the lowest skyscrapers, the dolefulest pleasures of any town I ever saw. Pun ? 1. The same sound, but different meaning ? You earn your living and urn your dead. ? 2. More than one meaning ? To England will I still, and there I’ll steal. ? 3. The same spelling, same sound but different meaning. ? We must hang together, or we shall all hang seperately. Zeugma ? He lost his temper and health in India. ? The blouses appeal to eye as well as to the purse. ? Never show the bottlom of your purse or your mind. ? Yesterday he had a blue heart and coat. ? Down went her head and out came the truth and tears. allusion ? The heel of Achilles ? Open sesame ? Cinderella ? Fig leaf ? Tower of Babel ? Pound of flesh ? Catch22 ? To meet one’s Waterloo ? Every man has himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. Irony ? Feature: You say one thing, but mean quite the opposite. ? Her capacity for family affection is extraodinary。 the valiant never taste of death but once… ? Let us never negociate out of fear, but let us never fear to negociate. ? Men always want to be a woman’s first love。 I like their beauty. I like their delicacy。 nor to find talk and discourse。 an Irishman, afterward. Parallelism ? They could describe an entertainment with accuracy, relate an anecdote with humour, and laugh at their acquaintance with spirit. ? Read not to contradic and confuse。 a Frenchman, standing。 ? She has the eye for the fair and the beautiful. ? The wolf and the pig mingled together in his fa