<span>A simile is the literary device used in the sentence. It is used twice in "body like a harp" and "words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires"</span>
A simile is a comparison between two unlike things using like or as. There are actually two similes in this line. The first is the comparison of the speaker's body to a harp. The second comparison is the woman's words to a harpist's fingers.
A metaphor is a comparison between two unlike things without using like or as. Personification is giving a non-human thing human-like traits. A motif is a dominant idea in a work of literature.
The excerpt indicates that the next part of the novel will directly address Colonialism
Explanation:
The concept of colonialism is the policy of using power and influence to control another nation or people that underlies colonialism. The line says that the white man bought so he has control over it.