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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson. POET OF PARADOX. Literary Devices. Slant rhyme: a close, but not exact rhyming sound, meant to disturb the reader’s ear and draw emphasis One/Stone Eye/Majority Assonance: the repetition of similar vowel sounds in a line of poetry

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Emily Dickinson

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  1. Emily Dickinson POET OF PARADOX

  2. Literary Devices • Slant rhyme: a close, but not exact rhyming sound, meant to disturb the reader’s ear and draw emphasis • One/Stone • Eye/Majority • Assonance: the repetition of similar vowel sounds in a line of poetry • Hope is a thing with feathers (“i” repeated) • Paradox: a statement that seems to contradict itself but suggests some important truth; a contradiction that can be explained as true.

  3. Literary Devices • Consonance: repetition of constants in the middle or ends of words in a line of poetry • Some late visitor entreating entrance at my door • Personification: when an object, animal, or idea is given human characteristics • Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me • Inversion: changing the natural order of words to fit rhyme scheme or meter • Inebriate of Air—am I

  4. Themes in Dickinson’s poetry Dickinson’s poetry explores the relationship between • Love and loss • Faith and Doubt • Death/immortality (does it even exist) and Life • Nature and Humanity • The power of God and The power of the individual imagination

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