Terezin Figurative Language

The elements of emotional appeal and figurative language clearly establish “Terezin”’s theme of adversity. Michael Flack created an emotional appeal to push the theme in “Terezin” by conveying emotions of torment and distress. Flack emphasizes how merciless and burdensome Terezin was. “The heaviest wheel rolls across our foreheads” is a line that indicates the heavy agony it is to even carry the tormenting memory of Terezin. Flack uses the negative connotations of “heaviest wheel rolls” in that line to push the idea that the memory of Terezin was forever to be imprinted in his mind, thus leading the reader to understand the children’s trauma at Terezin. In addition, Flack writes “Meanwhile, the rivers flow another way, another way, not letting