"language is a road map of a culture. it tells you where its people come from and where they are going." -rita mae brown the quote above is an example of a: a. personification b. metaphor c. simile d. alliteration

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.

c. a group of tribes that formed a confederacy