What is a literary device

A literary device is something authors use to change what the text means or the way that the reader should comprehend it . Figurative language is a literary device, allusion is a literary device, and euphemism is a literary device among many other things.

Explanation:

jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.