The correct answer should be Personification
It is a story parallel to what is happening in the Usher house.
The palace in the description represents Roderick Usher, whose hair used to be blond, as the yellow banners that wave in the air; through his eyes (the windows of the palace), a harmonious mind could be perceived, and wise words used to flow from his mouth, described as a door of pearl and ruby. However, gloom befalls on Roderick; his hair turns gray, his eyes are reddened by tears, his thoughts are discordant, and his mouth utters only the wild laughter of a madman.
There is way to much time travel going on and makes the book hard to follow
Answer: the way he only used short sentences when the prisoners were talking to the doctor or to each other way have been used to show how they were to weak or scared to talk a lot.
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