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CORRECT Answers
Part A: How does the author develop the theme that habits and routine can cause people to take
each other for granted? (R.1.2) - by describing how Hester and William's relationship has
changed.
Part B: Which detail from the passage shows how the author develops the theme from Part A?
(R.1.2) - "The strategic contest had gone on so long that it had almost crowded out the memory
of a closer relationship." (paragraph 20)
Who "kindly stopped" (line 2) for the speaker of the poem? - Death
How has the poet structured each stanza of the poem? - In each stanza, all four lines have the
same number of beats.
"Death is polite."
Which stanza besides the first supports this conclusion? - the second stanza
The speaker of the poem is someone who has died. How can the speaker's tone best be
described? - calm and measured
What is the main theme of the poem? - Death may signify the end of life, but it is also linked to
immortality.
Why might the poet have personified death in this poem? - to make death seem like a human
being instead of an event.
1 Because I could not stop for Death-
2 He kindly stopped for me-
CORRECT Answers
Part A: How does the author develop the theme that habits and routine can cause people to take
each other for granted? (R.1.2) - by describing how Hester and William's relationship has
changed.
Part B: Which detail from the passage shows how the author develops the theme from Part A?
(R.1.2) - "The strategic contest had gone on so long that it had almost crowded out the memory
of a closer relationship." (paragraph 20)
Who "kindly stopped" (line 2) for the speaker of the poem? - Death
How has the poet structured each stanza of the poem? - In each stanza, all four lines have the
same number of beats.
"Death is polite."
Which stanza besides the first supports this conclusion? - the second stanza
The speaker of the poem is someone who has died. How can the speaker's tone best be
described? - calm and measured
What is the main theme of the poem? - Death may signify the end of life, but it is also linked to
immortality.
Why might the poet have personified death in this poem? - to make death seem like a human
being instead of an event.
1 Because I could not stop for Death-
2 He kindly stopped for me-
