I'm going to analyse an extract taken from Virginia Woolf's novel : Mrs Dalloway

In the first line the reader can see there is an omniscient third person narrator, it is due to the fact he/she knows everything about Mrs Dalloway and her intention, also there is a the third person singular pronoun :she.

 The narrator use free direct style and introduces the situation: Mrs Dalloway  wants to buy flowers.

The extract starts with the protagonist: Mrs Dalloway. "Mrs" recalls her social status, she is married.
In the second line is presented another character: Lucy , probably she is a servant in the house and help Mrs Dalloway to prepare the party.  Afetr that the reader come to know  Clarissa's thoughts,she thinks about the weather, which is as if "issued to children on a beach".

Clarissa thinks about  when she was young and was in Bourton and when she was outside the window.

 Subsequently the narrator use a very sensual language which appeals to senses and  it is rendered through rethorical devices  like repetitions, anaphoric language and the use of short sentences.

There is also  a terrible expression ,"that something awful was about to happen", which refers probably to something that may will happen. 
 Going on reading the narrator uses a free direct speech:"What a lark!What a plunge!". The reader has the impression of hearing the exact words, it is as if the reader were  with Mrs Dalloway and also the reader comes to know the message exactly without any narrator's filter and he/ she is free to make an opinion.

 With Virginia Woolf  prose seems more poetic, there is a anaphoric costructions,"what a lark! What a pluge! "  " how , how" alliteration, repetition" looking, looking, wave ,wave"  and similes " like the flap of a wave".

The use of the simile "like a wave" recalls the idea of something fluid and the rytm of the wave is given by the repetition of verbs in progressive aspect.The use of anaphoric constructions and alliterations have the function of sticking into the reader's mind what the writer wants to underline and emphasize.

After that there is the introduction of another character through Clarissa's interior monologue:Peter Walsh. The use of direct speech reproduces the exact words of Peter as if you were there and could listen them.
From the phrase "for his letters were awfully dull" the reader can understand that Peter Walsh generally writesletters to Clarissa, but also that she does not appreciate them.

Subsequently there are some information about Peter: "his eyes, his pocket-knife, his smile, his grumpiness". They are some Peter's characteristics that Mrs Dalloway remembers and the reader is not free to make an idea about him.

The narration returns to the present: Clarissa is walking and stops a little on the kerb. She is thinking about her past, when she lived in Westminster. There is a lot of trafic but Clarissa is positive. She is thinking about life making references to heaven but also to what she is seeing in front of her.

Her thoughts are interrupted sharply referring to the War: it was over but the character thinks about two women Mrs Foxcroft and Lady Boxborough that are suffering for the deaths of their sons.
After that there is a description of people she sees while she is walking on the street. Everything is rendered

through short images and short sentences. It creates a dynamic rythm in the narration and the reader is totally

involved.