Read these lines from Emily Dickinson's "712" ("Because I could not stop for
Death"):
We slowly drove - He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility -
What is one purpose of the personification in this excerpt?
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A. It expresses a feeling of satisfaction on a life well lived.
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B. It presents death as having a sense of patient acceptance.
C. It makes the carriage seem like a friend to the speaker.
D. It links two unlike concepts: death and leisure.