Because I Could Not Stop for Death

Emily Dickinson

Because I Could Not Stop for Death

Emily Dickinson
38 pages1-hour read
Fiction
Poem
Adult
Published in 1890

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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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