What would you use to measure how much milk is in a jug?

Which of these events inspired many of stephen crane’s writings, including the story “an episode of war”?

You seal resign myself to you also i guess what you mean, i behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers, i believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me, we must have a turn together, i undress, hurry me out of sight of the land, cushion me soft, rock me in billowy drowse, dash me with amorous wet, i can repay you. in this excerpt from "song of myself," which literary device does whitman use to address the sea? alliteration allusion apostrophe onomatopoeia

How can the reader of a story use the setting of a story to learn more about a charactor