Question

Which element of style does the author use to build the grim mood of this passage?

Answer 1

The passage?

Answer 2

LOL

Answer 3

I was quite a child, but I well remember it. I never shall forget it whilst I remember any thing. It was the first of a long series of such outrages, of which I was doomed to be a witness and a participant. It struck me with awful force. It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass. It was a most terrible spectacle. I wish I could commit to paper the feelings with which I beheld it.

Answer 4

Monologue
INTERIOR monologue to be exact c:

Answer 5

Are there options?