What kind of figure of speech is this (For a war victim like me, there is always hope in hopelessne and fearlessness in fear.)

Can anyone plz with this question i accidentally posted on physics it's 99 points plus this 5 ponts and will mark as brainliest link :

Read the excerpt from flannery o'connor's "the life you save may be your own although the old woman lived in this desolate spot with only her daughter and she had never seen mr. shiftlet before, she could tell, even from a distance, that he was a tramp and no one to be afraid of. his left coat sleeve was folded up to show there was only half an arm in it and his gaunt figure listed slightly. which phrase connects these characters to the southern gothic genre? half an arm she had never seen his left coat sleeve folded up

Analyzing relationships how was the scientist work similar to the work of the keene high school students you read about in this section