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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
By Emily Dickinson
A Bird, came down the Walk
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A Clock stopped—
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A narrow Fellow in the Grass (1096)
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"Faith" is a fine invention
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Fame Is a Fickle Food (1702)
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Hope is a strange invention
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"Hope" Is the Thing with Feathers
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I Can Wade Grief
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I Felt a Cleaving in my Mind
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I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain
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If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
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If I should die
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If you were coming in the fall
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I heard a Fly buzz — when I died
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I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
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Much Madness is divinest Sense—
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Success Is Counted Sweetest
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Tell all the truth but tell it slant
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The Only News I Know
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There is no Frigate like a Book
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