You refer to literary devices all the time when you write. Which literary device is referred to in the example below?

The story takes place in a room with a painting that starts to have a strange effect on the narrator.

symbolism
setting
dialogue

"night. no one was praying for the night to pass quickly. the stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes." explain the images included in the passage. how is the use of the image of night contradictory to how we might expect it to be used