If you were coming in the fall

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