A Moment of Being

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a fortnight, was an afternoon sailing.” She uses an appositive as her first sentence to create the thrilling and nostalgic tone of her essay. “It was a perfect lesson. It was not a rebuke; not a forbidding; simply a statement of his own feeling, about which I could think and decide for myself.” She also uses simple sentences followed by more cumulative sentences. She does this to continue to the tone of her essay and add more effect to the thought of long-lasting memories.
Besides diction and syntax, Wolf uses simple figures of speech. “One day the sea was full of pale jellyfish, like lamps, with streaming hair; but they stung you if you touched them.” Wolf uses this simile in her essay to relate the reader to her fishing trip, as well to bring the trip to life. “It is one of those invaluable seeds, from which, since it is impossible to have every experience fully, one can grow something that represents other people’s experiences.” She uses this metaphor to correlate seeds to ...

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