Read the poem, and then answer the question.


Because I could not stop for death

By Emily Dickinson


[1] Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

[2] We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

[3] We passed the school where children played,
Their lessons scarcely done;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.

[4] We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.

[5] Since then 't is centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.

"Because I could not stop for death." Emily Dickinson, 1901.




The portrayal of death as a carriage driver is an example of
A. a simile.
B. an allusion.
C. symbolism.
D. personification.