Dracula

What is the significance of this passage in "Dracula" by Bram Stoker? What are some literary devices? Expand.

“Oh, Madam Mina,” he said, “how can I say what I owe to you? This paper is as sunshine. It opens the gate to me. I am daze, I am dazzle, with so much light, and yet clouds roll in behind the light every time. But that you do not, cannot, comprehend. Oh, but I am grateful to you, you so clever woman. Madam”—he said this very solemnly—“if ever Abraham Van Helsing can do anything for you or yours, I trust you will let me know. It will be pleasure and delight if I may serve you as a friend; as a friend, but all I have ever learned, all I can ever do, shall be for you and those you love. There are darknesses in life, and there are lights; you are one of the lights. You will have happy life and good life, and your husband will be blessed in you.”

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I think this is Dr. Seward flattering Mina. Her purity is the foil to Dracula's lustful depravity. She never knew her father and mother, and her devotion to Jonathan is strong. Dr. Seward thinks her presence is most helpful in this dark and dreary place.

Simile: This paper is as sunshine.

Metaphor: It opens the gate to me. I am daze, I am dazzle,