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Because I Could Not Stop For Death Metaphor Activity

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This activity gives students an opportunity to practice examining and analyzing metaphors. Metaphors express images, emotions, actions, experiences, and nuances through direct and indirect...

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Because I Could Not Stop For Death Metaphor Activity

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Macbeth

Romeo and Juliet

Hamlet

The Great Gatsby

Lord of the Flies

The Crucible

Of Mice and Men

Guide to Literary Terms

Julius Caesar

The Elder's Drum

Way in the Middle of the Air

How to Write a Poem

Sex Object: A Memoir

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

The Storyteller

The Mouse

Liking What You See: A Documentary

Violence and the Word

Tower of Babylon

A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

Much Madness Is Divinest Sense

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close

The Soul selects her own Society—

I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—

A Bird came down the Walk—

Apparently with no surprise

There's a certain Slant of light

Wild Nights—Wild Nights!