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Emily's Life
The Poem
Snake Facts
Literary Devices
Random Questions
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December 10, 1830
What is her date of birth?
100
A snake
What is the poem talking about?
100
Snakes can't bite their food.
Why do snakes swallow food whole?
100
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
What is a simile?
100
A word that describes Emily Dickinson
What is secluded?
200
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
What is the name of the school she attended?
200
Unbraiding in the sun
What does the snake do?
200
3000
How many different species of snake are there?
200
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is a metaphor?
200
White clothing
What did Emily Dickinson wear all of the time?
300
Amherst, MA
Where did she grow up?
300
A boggy acre
Where will the snake be found?
300
Scales
What are snakes covered in?
300
I thought, a whip lash, Unbraiding in the sun,
What is a metaphor? (Snake is being compared to a whiplash)
300
Elizabeth
What was Emily's middle name?
400
1800 poems
What is the amount of poems she wrote?
400
Fear
What does the snake represent to the speaker?
400
Constrict its prey
What does a python do?
400
The grass divides as with a comb,
What is a simile? (Grass divides like it's being combed)
400
Bright's disease
What did Emily Dickinson die from?
500
May 15, 1886
What is her date of death?
500
Bare to the bone, feeling empty.
What is zero at the bone?
500
every continent except Antarctica
Where can snakes be found?
500
anonymously in the local paper
How did she first publish her poetry?