Name the Technique
In Ancient Greece/healers used to keep snakes
Allusion
I retell my past . . .
In anyway I choose
Repetition of 's' at the beginning of successive words
I've developed wings, thick skin
metaphor
Because your resistance brings . . .
our evolution
See this life is a snake eating its own tail in a cycle
Allusion to Oroborous
Unless you want their poison to teach you . . .
how to cure yourself
hyperbole
exaggeration for effect
I fire soliloquies and my literary leave a literary litany
Alliteration (and hyperbole)
Keep me under the thumb/Keep me . . .
down trodden/Keep me under the gun
Live by the sword, die by the sword
Intertextuality
Sometimes I rewrite proverbs
just to prove the point
cliche
overly used metaphor
I close my eyes and admire the quality of silence
Auditory imagery (or synaesthesia)
Son, haven't you heard? . . .
I'm becoming a gun
That's why we need to keep speaking our truths
Inclusive personal pronouns
You should keep your friends close and your enemies . . .
as far away as possible
paradox
a statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd
I live like a citizen, you live life like imprisonment
Simile and contrast
Colonise me, . . .
compromise me and conflict me
Becuase inside the poison/is where we find the antidote
Irony
I am surviving . . .
I will survive this
Tricolon
listing of three related things in one sentence
Please resist me
Refrain
They told me I was illegitimate, . . .
illiterate and limited