1. A ballad is a style of verse - usually a musical narrative. The poem "Because I could not stop for Death," by Emily Dickinson, fits into this category due to the combination of iambic meter lines of three and four feet or stressed syllables, which create a hymn-like poem. For example:
Because I could not stop for Death (4 sylables)
He kindly stopped for me (3 syllables)
The Carriage held but just Ourselves (4 syllables)
And Immortality. (3 syllables)
2. The speaker has a flirting relationship with the character Death, which takes the shape of a courteous admirer. She feels very comfortable with him, although she is undressed, since the date with Death took her by surprise that morning.
All of the above is the correct answer. Americans today would be familiar with all of these features of politics in ancient Athens.
The kind of phrase the underlined words in the sentence is: A. <span>adverb phrase. As the name suggests, an adverb phrase functions the same way the adverb does. It modifies a adjective, verb, and adverb. In the sentence above, the phrase provides more details on the adjective "thousands". </span>
