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    10/10/11 Lallier per.3 Lang/comp Thinking critically The death of the moth by Virginia Woolf 1. In order to parallel the entire tone of the essay with the setting‚ the author uses months and seasons to amplify what she is feeling. The essay takes place at the end of September‚ entering autumn‚ a season associated with death‚ and change. The season foreshadows the authors’ belief in the consistency and inevitability of death. Almost showing it in a positive light‚ beautiful‚ much like autumn

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    Bona 1  Dylan Bona  Period 1 Smith  February 21‚ 2014  AP Lang  Rhetorical Analysis “Death of a Moth”  Annie Dilliard‚ a well­known nature writer‚ in her piece “Death of a Moth” recounts an  experience where she witnesses a moth get caught in the flame of a candle. Dilliard’s purpose  in the passage is to convey the brutality yet beauty of nature through the death of a moth. She  uses similes‚ choice diction regarding colors‚ and adopts a fascinated tone in order to portray  her feelings about nature

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    In “The Death of a Moth” written by Virginia Woolf in 1942‚ she correlates the life of a moth to the simplicity “true nature of life” and death. Moths are content with life while they do their duties as humans are‚ while putting up a fight. A large process of life of suffering and attempting to survive in this large process. Woolf claims that we‚ like moths‚ have such a simple and marvelous purpose in this world. We can do so much with the amount of energy we have but‚ we only do what we have

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    Commentary on Virginia Woolf’s “The Death of a Moth” “The essay is a notoriously flexible and adaptable form. It possesses the freedom to move anywhere‚ in all directions” says Lopate in the introduction to The Art of the Personal Essay. Virginia Woolf in her personal essay “The Death of the Moth” uses exceptional description and detail to the point where the reader can put themselves in her shoes and see what she is seeing. Although this essay may at first appear to be just a mere narrative

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    1970s. DEATH OF THE MOTH In "Death of a Moth" by Virginia Woolf‚ Woolf compares the wonder of life and

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    “The Death of a Moth” from the author Virginia Woolf and “Death of a Moth” by the author of Annie Dillard are distinct pieces of significances between two deaths of two moths. Deaths of two unidentical moths share a story of life‚ while one has no choice but to give up and end his life despite the fact that the other moth is an inspirational figure to life full-filled with energy and drive. To my understanding‚ Annie Dillard expresses herself using more of spiritual similes to show how death gives

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    Learning Lessons Through Death In the short story‚ “The Moths”‚ the narrator‚ a fourteen year old girl‚ assumes the responsibility of taking care of her cancerous and dying Abuelita. Her Abuelita is the only person who understands the narrator and the only person she feels she can turn to. After having followed man’s rules for so many years‚ Abuelita passes away. All the moths that lived inside her are freed and the narrator learns some life lessons. Helena Maria Viramontes uses symbolism and setting

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    JOURNAL LOG: The Death of the Moth Virginia Woolf The passage “The Death of the Moth” has been excerpted from Virginia Woolf’s (1882-1941) collection of essays and published one year after her death. Throughout this particular passage‚ she symbolizes a moth and its insignificance yet contribution to nature‚ along with her views on life and death. She skillfully elaborates about this moth‚ providing information that reveals it is much more noteworthy than it is treated. She begins her writing

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    Annie Dillard’s essay "The Death Of A Moth" made no sense to me when I initially read it‚ in a "sleep-deprived" state. In the haze my mind was in‚ during the battle with my body and my desire to read this essay‚ all I could make out was that; she berated the small cat about her short-term memory before kicking her out of the bed they shared. She then proceeded to the bathroom to consort with a spider whose attire reminded her of a day when she murdered a moth. She spoke about the carnage‚ her sharply

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    122 16 March 2016 Journal #7: “The Death of Moth” In Virginia Woolf’s essay “The Death of Moth” (1942)‚ she implies that the power of death is over us. Woolf develops her ideas by juxtaposing the change of nature in a summer day before and after the death of a moth‚ and the dying process of the ordinary moth. By using those powerful imagery‚ the author contemplates the death of an ordinary life in order to provoke readers to reflect the powerfulness of the death. With emotional and reflective tone

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