When reverend jesse jackson says, "we must relate instead of debate; we must inspire instead of retire; and we must repair instead of despair," what linguistic device is he using?

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.

the words “strangest” and “unusual” suggest that the narrator is about to tell the story of an odd or puzzling group of people.