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Summary Of Scant Traffic By Dillard

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1. The effect of Dillard’s including “like a jumble of buttresses for cathedral domes” is to show how strong moth wings (chitin) are. 2. 2. Transfiguration- the change in the appearance of Christ that took place before three disciples. This applies to Dillard’s essay since she takes the moths and shows how her student who was impeccable as she can be, a burning light and she blew her out before she became someone. Dillard changed before her new students arrived and she doesn’t blow them out, she keeps them burning bright. 3. 3. Dillard uses, such technical terms as thorax, cerci, and chitin to truly explain the complexity of her article. 4. 4. The effect of the word “scant traffic” is effect by showing how the spider’s web is barely adequate

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