“He said that after the wall-paper was changed it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on”
What literary device is used in this?
a. Metaphor
b. Simile
c. personification
d. symbolism
The author of this is trying to add up all these descriptions to symbolize something. If you closely look, read and understand this, you will find that it has a meaning in the way it is interpreted.