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When grendel speaks of unferth and says "i could crush him like a fly" what literary device is being used

Based on this excerpt the authors are most likely to attempt to answer which question

"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