Question

A bomb drops. All the windows rattle. The anti-aircraft guns are getting active. Up there on the hill under a net tagged with strips of green and brown stuff to imitate the hues of autumn leaves guns are concealed. Now they all fire at once. On the nine o'clock radio we shall be told "Forty-four enemy planes were shot down during the night, ten of them by anti-aircraft fire. (Virginia Woolf)

Example Method:

Content ("what" clues):

What is the content of this piece?
Style ("how" clues):

Diction:
Syntax:
Tone is:

Please Help.

Answer 1

I suggest @Vocaloid to guide you through this whenever possible. I hope I can help any other time. :)

Answer 2

Just to be sure, is the question asking me to describe the diction, syntax, tone, etc. about this excerpt?

Answer 3

Yes

Answer 4

I'll assume you know what content, style, diction, syntax, and tone are, and I'll briefly list the points you can include in your description.

Content:
What do you think is being described in this excerpt? It seems like the excerpt is depicting a scene from a battlefield during a rather modern war. Can you elaborate upon this?
Style:
Woolf seems craft this excerpt eloquently with stylistic devices, diction, and imagery. Can you elaborate on the stylistic devices, especially the imagery, and how Woolf incorporates these devices to enhance her piece?
Diction:
As mentioned under 'style', take close look at the vocabulary Woolf uses and its connotation. Woolf seems to integrate vivid verbs and strong adjectives in her piece to not only appeal emotionally but help the reader truly visualize the scene...which goes back to imagery and style.
Syntax:
Notice the short, simple subject and predicate sentences. They enhance the speed of the scene in the excerpt. Notice that Woolf is not forming compound and complex sentences. Can you elaborate on why she is doing this?
Tone: Tone, unlike mood, is how the writer is trying to depict the scene. As previously mentioned, it is evident that Woolf is trying to craft a war-like and dynamic environment. She's crafted this with the help of the strong diction and rhetorical devices that I mentioned earlier.

Answer 5

Thank you for your help. I have a few more if you could help me with them?

Answer 6

Democratic society is peculiarly dependent for its maintenance upon the use in forming a course of study of criteria which are broadly human. Democracy cannot flourish where the chief influences in selecting subject matter of instructions are utilitarian ends narrowly conceived for the masses, and, for the higher education of the few, the traditions of a specialized cultivated class. The notion that the "essentials" of elementary education are the three R's mechanically treated, is based upon ignorance of the essential needed for realization of democratic ideals... A curriculum which acknowledges the social responsibilities of education must present situations where problems are relevant to the problems of living together, and where observation and information are calculated to develop social insight and interest. (Democracy and Education, John Dewey, 1916)

Example Method:

Content ("what" clues):

What is the content of this piece?
Style ("how" clues):

Diction:
Syntax:
Tone is:

Answer 7

Hm, how about you try this one considering how I answered the previous question and I review it?
I'm afraid I can't help you in detail now, but I think @darkknight can help you perhaps

Answer 8

I'd also suggest closing this question with the "Close" button on your question. :)

Then you can ask a new question so someone may help you. Best of luck!

Answer 9

Ok. Thank you for your help. @justjm @Eiwoh2