What are the literary devices used here?

Question

"I am frightened: I dare think this way no more. This way lies the abyss. It is not now the time but I will not lose these thoughts, I will keep them, shut them away until the war is ended. My heart beats fast: this is the aim, the great, the sole aim, that I have thought of in the trenches; that I have looked for as the only possibility of existence after this annihilation of all human feeling; this is a task that will make life afterward worthy of these hideous years."

Answer 1

What literary terms (aka rhetorical devices) have you been studying?

Read through many here until you find what you're looking for:
http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm