Virginia Woolf's novel, Mrs. Dalloway, details the life of Mrs. Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-World War I England . The novel embodies the beliefs and ideas of modernist literature. The themes of "horrors of war", "fear of death", and "metafiction" are predominant themes presented through literary and rhetorical devices such as polysyndeton, anadiplosis, imagery and metaphors. The passage begins with a series of rhetorical questions. “But what was she dreaming of when she looked at Hatchard’s window? What was she trying to get back? What image of the white dawn in the countryside, as she reads in the open book? [Woolf, 1925] The rhetorical question is used for effect, emphasis or provocation. Several rhetorical questions can together form a developed and directed paragraph by transforming a series of logical statements into queries. The image of "the white dawn in the country" is used to refer to the dawn of English society after the First World War. Even though the war was over, things were not the same as before. The horrors have not been forgotten; the war had traumatic effects on the English...