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Q. What is the speaker doing in Dickinson's poem?
Riding the train
Conducting the train
Watching the train
Getting off the train
Q. When the speaker says that the train "feed[s]" itself, this is an example of which type of poetic device?
Simile
Personification
Juxtaposition
Contradiction
Q. The train peers "supercilious[ly]" at what?
A quarry
Mountains
A Hill
Shanties
Q. Which of the verbs below is used to describe the train's movement?
Run
Move
Step
Wait
Q. The speaker compares the train's sound to which poetic term?
Epic
Ballad
Stanza
Song