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.