The phrases in this excerpt that help to reveal the meaning of the word "blight" are:
The meaning of the term Blight is <em>scourge, whiter, disaste</em>r.
The support of the meaning in the excerpt is "the last bitter hour": the final moments when someone is going to die.
“stern agony, and shroud, and pall": the end of a life using dramatical terms.
"breathless darkness": a kind of disaster that is coming, not to be avoided that paralyzed people.
The <span> words in the sentence which are adverbs are the following:
</span>Slowly,
eventually ,
quite, and
really
Adverbs are words that are used to modify an adjective, a verb and an adverb. Adverbs answer the questions <u>how? when? where? to what extent? and why?</u>
