Can someone help me annotate this middle sectiion

How do the authors differ in the way they present the war in "facing it" and "ambush"?

The library carries many current books.what is the adjective

4.in those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. •type of figurative language: •meaning of figurative language: •effect on tone and mood: •effect on audience: choose out of these: hyperbole, irony, historical question, paradox, allusion,metaphor,personification,symbolism and simile