Answer:
The figurative language used in the stanza is: alliteration.
Explanation:
Alliteration is a literary device that repeats consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to each other in a structure. A simple example would be a well-known tongue twister: She sells seashells by the seashore (the /s/ sound is repeated).
In the stanza we are analyzing here, alliteration takes place when the author repeats the sound represented by the letter "h":
<em>In the silence </em><em>h</em><em>e </em><em>h</em><em>as </em><em>h</em><em>eard</em>
We have three words in a row beginning with the same consonant sound. Thus, we have an alliteration.
The stanza is an excerpt from the poem "The D.um.b Soldier," by Robert Louis Stevenson.
I'm a prisoner on the ground
With no one to stand around
People come and go
And I yell out with a moan
"Please help me
I need to be free"
But no one looks at me
For even one bit
Next thing I know
I start to get hit
I yell out loud
Out into the crowd
"Help me! Please!"
But they back away
And so I say,
"I don't have a disease!"
One moment later
The traitor comes out
And that's when I start to shout
"Traitor! Traitor! You betrayed me! Even when I was in need!"
But he just stayed still
And wouldn't move until
The guards push him away
And that's when he started to sway
Side to side he went
All the while looking content
I couldn't believe my eyes
Everything he told me were lies
I started to rise
To start to go
And wouldn't you know
He held me by the arm
Said, "I don't want to do you any harm."
The last thing I remembered
Was that he got dismembered.
I dont have a drawing but look up prisoner on ground with guards around
Because people have morals and people have opinions
