Because i could not stop for death,
he kindly stopped for me;
the carriage held but just ourselves
and immortality.

in this excerpt from "because i could not stop for death," dickinson describes death using

allusion
analogy
metaphor
personification

Personification

Explanation:

Personification is a literary device that takes place when a thing, animal, idea, abstract quality, aspect of nature, emotion or event is given human attributes like pondering and speaking. In the excerpt, Dickison describes death using personification because it gives “death”, which can be defined as “the state of being no longer alive”, is describes as if it was a human and gives it human qualities like to kidly stopping her.

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