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.

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.