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Emily DickinsonBecause I Could Not Stop for Death
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Literary Device Answers
1. D. Personification is assigning human characteristics to things that are not human.
2. B. Alliteration is the repetition of the first letter of two adjacent or near-adjacent words.
3. D. When the speaker boards Death’s carriage, she has, in fact, died, evidenced by her eventual arrival at her grave (“…a House that seemed / A Swelling of the Ground—“) later in the poem (Lines 17-18).
4. C. The pauses create caesuras (a rhythmical pause in a poetic line).
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