Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Emily Dickinson
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Emily Dickinson
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Because I Could Not Stop for Death 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).
