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THE FIGURE OF SPEECH —top 20’s rate Alliteration 头韵Repetition of an initial consonant sound. How and why he had come to Princeton, New Jersey is a story of struggle, success, and sadness. 他如何和为什么来到新泽西州的普林斯顿是一个充满奋斗、成功和令人伤心的一段经历。Anaphora 首语重复法Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses. (Contrast with epiphora and epistrophe.) Antithesis 对仗The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases. Apostrophe 省略Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character. Assonance 谐音；类韵Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words. Chiasmus 交错配列A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed. Euphemism 委婉语The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit. Hyperbole 夸张An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect. When I told our father about this, his heart burst. 当我将这件事告诉我们的父亲时，他的心几乎要迸出来。 Irony 讽刺；反语The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea. Well, of course, I knew that gentlemen like you carry only large notes. 啊，当然，我知道像你这样的先生只带大票子。 Litotes 曲言；间接肯定法A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. Metaphor 暗喻；隐喻An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common. German guns and German planes rained down bombs, shells and bullets... 德国人的枪炮和飞机将炸弹、炮弹和子弹像暴雨一样倾泻下来。Metonymy 借代A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it. A. Several years later, word came