Although Emily Dickinson broke away from traditional poetic form in her poetry, she often wrote in regular stanzas.

In the poem, "Because I could not stop for Death," she wrote in regular stanzas of ____ lines each.

A. five

B. four

c. six

Which best characterizes Dickinson's attitude toward death, as portrayed in Lines 5-7 of "Because I could not stop for Death"?

Lines 5-7: "We slowly drove He knew no haste, And I had put away

My labor, and my leisure too,"

A. disgust

B. terror

c. acceptance

2 - She dressed plainly because she could not dress well, but she was as unhappy as if she had really fallen from a higher station; since with women there is neither caste nor ranked for beauty, grace, and  charm take the place of birth and family. Natural ingenuity, instinct for what is elegant, a supple mind are their sole hierarchy, and often make of women of the people the equals of the very greatest ladies.

 

What differences between Mathilde and her husband are apparent in the underlined passages in Section 69-70 of Maupassant, "The Necklace"?

A. Mathilde was so grief stricken she couldn't walk, but her husband wasn't as worried.

B. Mathilde's husband actively tried to fix their problem, while she just sat and worried.

C. Mathilde didn't know how to think without her husband.

16-I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear, that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open. The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now