American Literature: "I heard a Fly buzz - when I died"
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JoDee Wilch
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By Emily Dickenson
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- Emily Dickenson
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Find the meter of the following two lines:
"I heard a fly buzz when I died;
The stillness round my form"
How would you describe the meter of this poem?
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What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
Write it on the poem.
Note the lines that use slant rhyme with a star.
What effect does slant rhyme have on a poem?
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What is happening to the narrator of this poem? How is she dealing with it?
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What is the narrator expecting to see? What happens instead?
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How is the fly used as a symbol in this poem?
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Find an example of the following:
- metaphor
- onomatopoeia
- oxymoron
- simile
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