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Emily Dickinson - Metaphor Flashcards

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

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  • Born in Massachusetts
  • Poetry is bold, daring, spontaneous
  • Wrote over 1700 poems
  • in 1950 - poems were republished with her original capitalization, dashes, and other quirks
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metaphor

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  • a comparison of two unlike things
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simile

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  • a comparison of two unlike things using like or as
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extended metaphor

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  • extended comparison of two unlike things
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