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Emily DickinsonIf you were coming in the fall
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Literary Device Questions
1. What literary device is Dickinson using when she writes, “I’d brush the Summer by / … / As Housewives do, a Fly” (Lines 2, 4)?
A) Irony
B) Simile
C) Personification
D) Hyperbole
2. In the second stanza, what kind of rhyme does Dickinson use when she rhymes “balls” with “fuse”?
A) Perfect rhyme
B) Assonance
C) Consonance
D) Masculine rhyme
3. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
A) ABAB
B) ABCB
C) ABAD
D) AABB
4. In the first stanza, Dickinson says she’ll let the summer pass by and wait for the fall. What literary device is she using here?
A) Metaphor
B) Simile
C) Personification
D) Hyperbole
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