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In psychology, memories have three stages in which the brain can retain and recall past experiences and information; encoding, storage, and retrieval. Most memories from someone’s childhood are lost due to absentmindedness but in her memoirs, Virginia Woolf dwells upon treasured thoughts of a fishing trip in the company of her dad and brother. This remembrance does not transient or linger in the back of her mind, no. She vividly contemplates, remembering every word and detail of past events. Woolf conveys the lasting significance of these moments from her apprehension to show her memories are close at hand.
Woolf utilizes simile and existentialism tone to describe the many aspects of the event of her fishing trip. She uses similes to

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