Because I Could Not Stop for Death

In this poem, Death is an example of

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Step 8: This poem is a

• free verse

• English/Shakespearean sonnet

• ballad

• villanelle

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CCSS.RL.11-12.12

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Choose all that apply:

Step 8: What makes this poem the type that it is?

• mostly common meter

• tells a story

• written in quatrains

• the even lines (mostly) rhyme

• iambic

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CCSS.RL.11-12.12

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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Step 8: This poem is written in

• iambic trimeter

• iambic pentameter

• iambic tetrameter

• it’s not iambic

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Step 8: This poem uses anaphora

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Step 8: This poem uses caesuras

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Step 8: This poem uses ___________ for its lines

• enjambment

• end-stopped

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Which 2 elements slow down the pacing in poems?

• alliteration

• caesuras

• end-stopped

• onomatopoeis

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Step 8: Alliteration plays an important role in the sound quality of this poem.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Step 6: The narrator is

• Death

• A woman

• A man

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.3