1. Assonance: Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in the same line such as the sound of /a/ in “They are dancing and stamping on you” and the sound of /e/ in “I was ten when they buried you”.
2. Metaphor: It is a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between the different objects. The poet has compared her father, husband, and most men, in general with, ‘Black shoe’; ‘Ghastly statue’; ‘Panzer- man’ and ‘Vampire’.
3. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. The poet describes her father as a train taking her to a concentration camp. For example,

“An engine, an engine

Chuffing me off like a Jew.”

Daddy Summary