How does the writer use language here to describe the narrator’s fright and confusion? You could include the writer’s choice of: words and phrases , language features and techniques, sentence forms

Q2. Look in detail at this extract from lines 13 to 25 of the Source:" Where were the officers and the crew? What were they doing? Towards the bow I saw some men running in the gloom. I thought I saw some animals too, but I dismissed the sight as illusion crafted by rain and shadow. We had the hatch covers over their bay pulled open when the weather was good, but at all times the animals were kept confined to their cages. These were dangerous wild animals we were transporting, not farm livestock. Above me, on the bridge, I thought I heard some men shouting.The ship shook and there was that sound, the monstrous metallic burp. What was it? Was it the collective scream of humans and animals protesting their oncoming death? Was it the ship itself giving up the ghost? I fell over. I got to my feet. I looked overboard again. The sea was rising. The waves were getting closer. We were sinking fast.I clearly heard monkeys shrieking. Something was shaking the deck, A gaur-an Indian wild ox-exploded out of the rain and thundered by me, terrified, out of control, berserk. I looked at it, dumbstruck and amazed. Who in God's name had let it out? "

Answer: In the structure of the above presented paragraph we can easily observe the high amount of rhetorical questions, such as :"Where were the officers and the crew?"; "What were they doing?"What was it?"; "Was it the collective scream of humans and animals protesting their oncoming death?" Was it the ship itself giving up the ghost?". Therefore, their presence may be interpreted as a way of inducing the reader in the same state in which the character is finding himself : in a difficult and challenging situation. By adding this type of sentences, the confusion of the character increases its manifestation through the stream of consciousness that is slowly developing in his mind. Another aspect which definitely helps constructing this scary situation is the way in which the author manages to use the stylistic devices in order to create the most relevant descriptive environment for a general state of fright: this way it is worth mentioning the existence of onomatopoeia and personification: "The ship shook and there was that sound, the monstrous metallic burp. What was it? Was it the collective scream of humans and animals protesting their oncoming death?";"I clearly heard monkeys shrieking.". At this particular point, the senses of the character are completely disturbed by all the sounds and movements which happen in the dark, creating a great uncertainty .