Emily Dickinson: The Belle of Amherst a private but very intense and energetic individual devoted most of her energy to poetry is considered by some critics to be America's greatest lyric poet wrote at least 1,775 poems Quatrains Similes, Metaphors, Personification Extended Metaphor True Rhyme Sight Rhyme Slant Rhyme Synaestheisa Quiz

Quatrains I ’M nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell! They’d banish us, you know.    How dreary to be somebody!        5 How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog! most of her poetry is written in quatrains quatrains are four line stanzas Quatrains Similes, Metaphors, Personification Extended Metaphor True Rhyme Sight Rhyme Slant Rhyme Synaestheisa Quiz

Similes, Metaphors, and Personification she uses figurative language such as similes, metaphors, and personification simile-comparison using like or as Metaphor-comparison saying one thing is spoken of as if it were something else Personification-giving human characteristics to an object that is not human I ’M nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell! They’d banish us, you know.    How dreary to be somebody!        5 How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog! Quatrains Similes, Metaphors, Personification Extended Metaphor True Rhyme Sight Rhyme Slant Rhyme Synaestheisa Quiz

Extended Metaphor HOPE is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all,    And sweetest in the gale is heard;         And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm.    I ’ve heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea;         Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me. another literary tool used frequently is extended metaphor extended metaphor- comparison that is carried throughout an entire stanza or a whole poem Quatrains Similes, Metaphors, Personification Extended Metaphor True Rhyme Sight Rhyme Slant Rhyme Synaestheisa Quiz

True Rhyme many of Dickinson’s poem contain true rhyme true rhyme-rhymed sounds are exact I have at last revenge. The palate of the hate departs; If any would avenge,— It would break many hearts. The rhyme scheme of this stanza is abab. Quatrains Similes, Metaphors, Personification Extended Metaphor True Rhyme Sight Rhyme Slant Rhyme Synaestheisa Quiz

Sight Rhyme some poems contain sight rhyme Example 1: Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. The rhyme scheme of these two lines is aa. Example 2: I've known her from an ample nation Choose one; Then close the valves of her attention Like stone. The rhyme scheme of this stanza is abab some poems contain sight rhyme sight rhyme-the ending of words are spelled alike but sound differently Quatrains Similes, Metaphors, Personification Extended Metaphor True Rhyme Sight Rhyme Slant Rhyme Synaestheisa Quiz

Slant Rhyme Occasionally slant rhyme is used slant rhyme-rhyme that is not perfect; words sound similar I TOOK my power in my hand And went against the world; ’T was not so much as David had, But I was twice as bold. The rhyme scheme of this stanza is abab. Quatrains Similes, Metaphors, Personification Extended Metaphor True Rhyme Sight Rhyme Slant Rhyme Synaestheisa Quiz

Synaesthesia One literary tool Dickinson uses is synaesthesia synaesthesia-the description of a sense impression (smell, touch, sound etc) but in terms of another seemingly inappropriate sense Examples: 'a deafening yellow' 'sunburnt happiness With Blue – uncertain stumbling Buzz –  Between the light – and me  And then the Windows failed – and then I could not see to see –  A buzz is a sound, but here Dickinson describes it as blue and stumbling—combining the senses of sound, sight, and touch Quatrains Similes, Metaphors, Personification Extended Metaphor True Rhyme Sight Rhyme Slant Rhyme Synaestheisa Quiz

Quiz Question 1 Question 1: How are the skies personified in the following stanza? They like daffodils. They share secrets with the hills. The talk to the orchards. The Skies can't keep their secret! They tell it to the Hills – The Hills just tell the Orchards -- And they -- the Daffodils! The A. B C Quatrains Similes, Metaphors, Personification Extended Metaphor True Rhyme Sight Rhyme Slant Rhyme Synaestheisa Quiz

Quiz Question 2 Question 2: What literary tool does Dickinson use in the underlined line of the following stanza? simile sight rhyme synaesthesia The leaves unhooked themselves from trees And started all abroad; The dust did scoop itself like hands And throw away the road. A B C Quatrains Similes, Metaphors, Personification Extended Metaphor True Rhyme Sight Rhyme Slant Rhyme Synaestheisa Quiz

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