Because I Could Not Stop for Death

What are they comparing death to?

• Growing up
• the horses' heads
• A gentleman driving a carriage
• her life

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What is presented as an Abstract idea?

• life
• immortality
• eternity
• Death

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What does the house represent?

• the carriage
• life
• her grave
• death

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What did the speaker do before they died?

• wrote her will
• gave everything that she could away
• both
• neither

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CCSS.RL.8.4

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Who is the Speaker?

• someone who is immortal
• someone full of life
• someone who has died
• someone who has suffered

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

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The setting sun represents what?

• acceptance
• life
• accomplishment
• death

How long has it been since the person died?

• weeks
• months
• days
• centuries

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Is the speaker male or female

• male
• female

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Where is the shift in the poem?

• Between 2 & 3
• Between 16 & 17
• Between 4 & 7
• Between 9 & 10

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

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CCSS.RL.8.4

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what does the "drive" symbolize

• it symbolizes the transition of being alive to being dead
• it symbolizes the main character resisting death
• it symbolizes being dead
• it symbolizes being full of life and driving through life

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

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