1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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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