#5(2) Speech types

Having read the story for the fifth time, we have already distinguished some peculiar features of the plot. According to our conclusion, we may now talk about some speech types the author used in the text.

the types of speech employed by Ambrose Bierce are rather diverse, they comprise main of them, such as narration, description (descriptions of setting and main heroes) meditation of the main hero, (thus the interior speech and interior monologue), dialogue in the end of the story, between Druse and sergeant. In the second chapter, Druse speaks with his father, there we can see examples of direct speech. 

Throughout the text we observe cases of unuttered represented speech - the main hero often thinks, states the questions to himself, hesitates. The given text is a mixture of narration and description with some insertions of direct and represented speech, with philosophical digression and some flashbacks to the past (recollecting father's words).
Tone is serious, sad, ironic, formal.  Tone is achieved through descriptive details of setting and character. Mood refers to the atmosphere of a story there it comes to be mysterious.