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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 Questions
1. Describing Death as the carriage driver and Immortality as a fellow passenger are examples of which literary device?
A) metaphor
B) imagery
C) hyperbole
D) personification
2. Which of these is an example of alliteration?
A) “slowly drove”
B) “Gazing Grain”
C) “The Cornice—in the Ground”
D) “Were toward Eternity—”
3. Comparing dying to going for a ride in Death’s carriage is an example of which literary device?
A) foreshadowing
B) irony
C) flashback
D) metaphor
4. What literary device is exemplified by the pauses within lines such as, “Or rather—He passed us—“? (Line 13)
A) anaphora
B) enjambment
C) caesura
D) onomatopoeia
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