Total Eclipse By Annie Dillard Figurative Devices

At the beginning, Annie Dillard vividly describes the surrounding area before the total eclipse. This same vivid imagery is used throughout the text and allows the reader to experience everything Annie Dillard experienced. This thorough recounterance, in the text, “Total Eclipse,” helps the reader understand Dillards emotions through the use of different figurative devices. The detailed describing words used in paragraph two, “All the people you see in the photograph.are now dead.I was watching a faded color print of a movie filmed in the middle ages,” make it seem as though the author is afraid and as if she feels she is in a foreign place. This is because of Dillard's first experience viewing a total eclipse. Though in the following paragraphs,