1. Emily Dickinson
Poetry Unit

2. Read all about Emily Dickinson
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Use the note taking handout and find 2 important details over each topic on handout.
Write down the “Notable Quote” and what you think it means on the bottom of note taking handout.
We will be discussing this in a few minutes and then working on vocab.

3. Quatrains
Four line stanzas that echo the simple rhythms of church hymns.

4. Slant rhymes
Words that do not EXACTLY rhyme.
Chill/Tulle

5. Figurative Language
Figurative language is language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation.
When a writer uses literal language, he or she is simply stating the facts as they are. Figurative language, in comparison, uses exaggerations or alterations to make a particular linguistic point. Figurative language is very common in poetry, but is also used in prose and nonfiction writing as well.
Types- Simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification

6. Imagery
Visually descriptive or figurative language, esp. in a literary work

7. Essential Truths When you focus on life’s real meaning.
Love, loss, Joy, death

8. Personification Giving non-human objects human like characteristics.
Example: The moon was smiling down on us.

9. Rhythm
Rhythm refers to the pattern of sounds made by varying the stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem

10. Simile
A figure of speech that compares two things that have something in common, using like or as.

11. Metaphor
A figure of speech that compares two things directly, without using like or as.

12. Paradox
a statement whose two parts seem contradictory yet make sense with more thought.
Christ used paradox in his teaching: "They have ears but hear not." Or in ordinary conversation, we might use a paradox, "Deep down he's really very shallow." Paradox attracts the reader's or the listener's attention and gives emphasis.

13. Paradox Review
Paradox: a statement that seems to contradict itself but may nevertheless suggest an important truth.
Identify a paradox in “Success is counted sweetest”, “Much Madness is divinest Sense,” and “My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun-.” What truth does each paradox convey?