what are some uses of imagery in the first 6 chapters that point out the conflicts that exist at devon?

Simile

"It had loomed in my memory as a huge lone spike dominating the riverbank, forbidding as an artillery piece, high as a beanstalk..." (the tree)

Personification

"The ocean looked dead too, dead gray waves hissing mordantly along the beach, which was gray and dead-looking itself."