Ugh im doing a frayer model. what does height mean and what are its characteristics?

In edgar allen poe's "masque of the red death", what object is kept in the black room?

Ihave no idea what the explanation is.

"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