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Literary Devices
Emily Dickinson used irony and paradox in describing her naïve experiences and those of her family around her. She also
uses personification and symbolism, which is found in almost every poem. Each poem had a different topic and therefore had
a different use of a literary device. She also alluded to common things, such as Greek myths and the Bible. She also made
her poetry fit to a hymn meter, as if her poetry were to be used in a Church choir.
One sensory experience described in terms of another sensory experience. Emily Dickinson, in "I Heard a Fly Buzz-When
I Died," uses a color to describe a sound, the buzz of a fly: with blue, uncertain stumbling buzz.
Dickinson uses the literary devices simile and overstatement. The similes Dickinson uses help the reader better understand
what she was thinking when she was choosing her words for the poem. The words “Frigate like a Book” help
the reader understand that a book, though small in size, is capable or delivering vast amounts of knowledge.
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