Woolf Punctuation (page 20)

I have never seen an author use punctuation and literary devices like Woolf does, and I mean this in a good way.
While everyone in the story is dazed with this car, a sky-writing plane breaks the spell. Woolf's use of punctuation also adds variety from the previous passage for the reader.
The place where I first noticed it was in the sentence, "actually writing something! making letters in the sky!" (Woolf 20). I've never seen a writer use an exclamation mark in the middle of the sentence and then leave the next word un-capitalized. This adds a voice to the narrator and serves as an interruption, to show how surprised and excited they were to see a plane writing letters. The next sentence has a lot of alliteration, "dropping dream down" and then a list of action verbs, all separated by commas. This is a pretty sentence to read, because of the literary devices used. The alliteration paired with the action verbs emphasizes the plane and its actions. Also, the use of multiple commas (7 in this sentence), allow the sentence to carry on longer. This extension reminded me of a person's eyes following a plane, keeping their eyes on its movement. The next few sentences show Woolf's use of question marks as the viewers try to figure out what the plane is spelling. The question marks serve to show their curiosity, as well as rise to a climax about what the plane will spell out. The last punctuation mark I found interesting was Woolf's use of a semicolon, "Only for a moment did they lie still; then they moved..."(Woolf 20). The semicolon following the world still creates a short, natural pause for the reader, just like the plane paused for a second. After the semicolon, Woolf uses more action verbs to show that the plane resumed writing. By using these literary devices and punctuation, Woolf makes the reader become a part of the crowd, as she builds suspense as both the reader and crowd are waiting to see what the plane will spell out.