Question

What is the role of syntax in this line? At this, after a second in which his head made the movement of a baffled dog's on a scent and then gave a frantic little shake for air and light, he was at me in a white rage, bewildered, glaring vainly over the place and missing wholly, though it now, to my sense, filled the room like the taste of poison, the wide, overwhelming presence

Answer 1

a syntax is also known as your parts of speech , such as an adjective. one of the few adjectives in the passage above is : white , bewildered , baffled , frantic , etc.