"Death Of the Moth" Analysis
...eficial · 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 the energy that was rolling in at the open window and driving its war through so many narrow and intricate corridors in my own brain and in those of other human beings, there was something marvelous as well as pathetic about him. 5. Hyperbole- One is apt to forget all about life, seeing it humped and bossed and garnished and cumbered so that it has to move with the greatest circumspection and dignity. Discussion Questions 1. Why did Woolf just sit there and stare at the moth trying to leave? 2. Why did Woolf write this with negative connotation? 3. Why did the moth represent life and death? Quotation: “ O yes, he seemed to say, death is stronger than I am.” Pass...