dreacula pg 46

"It had been so forcibly driven against the jamb that part of the woodwork was splintered. I could see that the bolt of the lock had not been shot, but the door is fastened from the inside. I fear it was no dream, and must act on this surmise." pg 46

The author uses imagery to convey that dark mood. Using diction like forcibly driven helps to create the image of rough harsh movements to lock the door. He wants him to stay in there, or to keep others out. Using this diction helps to create that tone of fear that the narrator is feeling. By reading this you can understand the terror that he is feeling; being trapped and no way out. The syntax also helps to convey this because it is long run on sentences. This helps for the reader to understand that he is thinking nonstop in his head. He just keeps on thinking of more things to add into the sentence. When this happens it gives that sense of fear that the narrator is experiencing.

Dracula pg 41

"To the west was a great valley, and then, rising far away, great jagged mountain fastness, rising peak on peak, the sheer rock studded with mountain ash and thorn, whose roots clung in the cracks and crevices and crannies of the stone."

First the author uses alliteration by using the harsh sound of the c in "cracks and crevices and crannies..." This use of alliteration using the c sound helps to create that spooky, kind of scary atmosphere. Next the author uses imagery. He is describing everything that he is able to see outside, and by using vivid diction to display this, you can get a great image of that Jonathan Harker is looking at through his window. Everything looks so free to him, and there is so much room for him to go explore, compared to being trapped in a small room alone. The syntactical order that the author has placed everything in, using many commas and just making the sentence run on and on reflects the way the character is feeling. He just keeps on seeing all these things outside of his window that he wants, and he doesn't know what to do. He doesn't know how to escape.

Dracula pg 37

"I pray you, my good young friend, that you will not discourse of things other than buissness in your letters. It will doubtless please your friends to know that you are well, and that you look foward to getting home to them. Is it not so?" As he spoke he handed me three sheets of note-paper and three envelopes. They were all of the thinest foreign post, and looking at them, then at him, and noticing his quiet smile, with the sharp, canine teeth lying over the red under-lip, I understood as well as if he had spoken that I should be careful what I wrote, for he would be able to read it."


The author uses imadry to set the dark mood of this passage. He makes sure to perfectly descrive the cainine teeth so that you can see count Dracula smiling at you with them. And the use of the vivid diction helps to enhance the imadry. "Red under-lip" is used to enhance the image of blood by using red to describe it instead of pink. This passage also helps the dark mysterious mood keep going because the author keeps coming to conclusions about Count Dracula. The more he realizes, the scarier it becomes. The diction is very vivid and harsh using alot of harsh sounding letters like p's and t's. This helps to create that harsh and scary tone.