"Death Of The Moth" Analysis
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"Death Of The Moth" Analysis
"The Death of the Moth" Analysis
Précis:
The essay by Virginia Woolf is explaining how on a September day, while people were doing their normal things, like plowing, she saw a moth. She didn't even consider it a moth thought. Woolf sat there watching the moth go back and forth at her window sill and just sat their, watching it slowly die. The moth without the reader realizing it shows what life really is and what death really is. While the moth is trying to find a way out threw the windowsill shows the struggle of life and as it slowly dies the moth is showing how death consequently takes over and everything ends. This experience evokes emotions that go along with this scene. This scene to Woolf is insignificant to her as the moth is. The day to Woolf is common that it was barely noticed.
Vocabulary
· Benignant- favorable; beneficial
· Plough- to break and turn over (earth) with a plow.
· Down- an expanse of rolling, grassy, treeless upland used for grazing
· Vociferation- to utter (something) or cry out loudly and vehemently, especially in protest.
· Diminutive- extremely small in size; tiny
· Circumspection- knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress
· Apt- having a natural tendency; inclined
· Agitated- physically disturbed or set in motion
Tone: Despair and Death
Rhetorical Terms
1. Simile- they are hybrid creatures, neither gay like butterflies not somber like their own species.
2. Simile- the rooks too were keeping one of their annual festivities; soaring round the treetops until it looked as if a vast net with thousands of black knots in it had been cast up into the air.
3. Simile- Watching him, it seemed as if a fiber, very thin but pure, of the enormous energy of the world had been thrust into his frail and diminutive body.
4. Hyperbole- Yet, because he was so small, and so simple a form of...
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