What does the line “the restless, wind-tossed forest of fiddle necks and bows” suggest? Cather compares the fiddle necks and bow
s to the branches of trees in the wind, creating a wild landscape of movement. Cather describes the shape of the fiddle necks and bows as looking like a stand of trees in a forest. The sound the bows make on the fiddle necks is similar to the sound of the wind in trees in a forest. There are so many fiddles in the orchestra that the sound is overwhelming to Clark.
What the line "the restless, wind-tossed forest of fiddle necks and bows" suggests is the following:
A. Cather compares the fiddle necks and bows to the branches of trees in the wind, creating a wild landscape of movement.
This question refers to the short story "A WagnerMatinée" by Willa Siberth Cather.
At a certain point in the story, Clark takes his aunt, Georgina, to a concert. This is when the orchestra is described, and the metaphorical line we are analyzing her is used.
The metaphor consists in comparing the fiddle necks and the bows to a "wind-tossed forest." In other words, the author is comparing their movement to the movement of branches in the wind.
Such a metaphor creates a sense of wild landscape of movement, as we imagine the bows and fiddle necks swaying harmoniously as if touched by the wind.
With that in mind, we can choose letter A as the best option.
Selecting Your Texts and Your Prompt For this assignment you’ll be writing and then presenting about two texts, one non-literary "anchor text", one visual.
