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This 4 page paper discusses some of the literary techniques used by Virginia Woolf and E.B. White in their essays “The Death of the Moth” and “Once More to the Lake,” respectively. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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imagery, sentence structure, repetition, alliteration, metaphor, simile and so on to achieve their effects. This paper compares and contrasts two essays, "Once More to the Lake" by E.B. White and
"Death of a Moth" by Virginia Woolf, with regard to three stylistic elements the authors use. Discussion The three elements under discussion are imagery, sentence structure and foreshadowing. The
stories are similar because they both consider the nature of life and the inevitable loss of that life. Woolf talks about death directly, as she describes the way the moth
flits around, then stiffens and finally dies; Whites consideration of death takes the form of his attempt to stop time, only to have it catch up with him in the
last line of the story. Both stories rely heavily on imagery for their impact, though the authors handle it differently. Woolfs story is a small, close examination of a moth
on a windowpane. The narrator is reading a book, and although she is intensely aware of the world outside, she prefers to observe it through the window rather than joining
in. White is the opposite: he takes us to the lake, into nature, where he interacts with it, rather than using it as a background. Woolfs imagery concentrates on light
and dark, and various colors. She mentions "dark autumn nights," a "yellow-underwing," "shadow," "hay-coloured wings, fringed with a tassel of the same colour" (Woolf). She describes a tree full of
rooks that flies into the air looking like a "vast net with thousands of black knots in it" (Woolf). She also describes the force of life as something of great
"vigor," and says that the moth embodies "the enormous energy of the world" (Woolf). He becomes a "tiny pure bead of life" that represents that energy and in fact, he
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