Question

What are the figures of speech in the poem 'Gaining Victory'?

Answer 1

expressive, nonliteral use of language. Figures of speech include tropes (such as hyperbole, irony, metaphor, and simile) and schemes (anything involving the ordering and organizing of words—anaphora, antithesis, and chiasmus, for example).

Answer 2

The main figure of speech used in this poem is metaphor since the poet compares the pain directly to many things like a thief,oppressive,etc.