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Synecdoche In I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died By Emily Dickinson
Synecdoche is when you describe a noun in an indirect way, but one that most people will instantly understand. In the poem “I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died”, by Emily Dickinson, synecdoche is used frequently to show the mood of the poem and to create the setting.
In the very beginning of the poem, the setting is shown with the quote “The Stillness in the room / Was like the Stillness in the air / between the Heaves of Storm” (857). This uses synecdoche in the word stillness to tell us that the room is very silent and still. Then, the very next line states “The Eyes around --- had wrung them dry” which uses synecdoche with the word “eyes” to infer that there are many people in the room, and again with “wrung to dry” to tell us that the people
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