Annie Dillard witnessed the solar eclipse, and in this excerpt, Dillard explains to the readers the experience she had during this extraordinary once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon. She describes what it looks like, and how she feels at the moment of the eclipse. Annie Dillard feels as though the world looks different than it usually does, she uses imagery to describe what she sees. Here is an example of imagery in this excerpt “Our minds were light-years distant, forgetful of everything,” meaning that at this moment everyone is so amazed and the eclipse is all they’re able to think about. In addition to imagery, she also uses metaphors. She uses these metaphors to show us what she is feeling and thinking. “There is no world. We were the world’s
