If You Were Coming in the Fall by Emily Dickinson

What are 4 topics that were mentioned that Emily would write about?

• Life, Death, Love, Nature

• Nature, Time, Bees, Flies

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

About how many individual poems did Emily write?

• 1200

• 800

• 1800

Who is the man she loved?

• Leonard Humphrey

• It's a mystery

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

True or False:

She only wore white.

• True

• False

Who published Emily's poems after she passed?

• Father's Sister

• Herself

• Brother's Mistress

What is the main conflict in the poem?

• The speaker does not know what day or year it is

• The speaker does not know when she will see her love again

• The speaker is being stung by bees

• The speaker wants to be a housewife

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which one of these is a metaphor used in the poem?

• Comparing the summer to a housefly

• Comparing the months to balls

• Comparing death to eternity

• Comparing a year to drawers

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Emily uses the repetition of "If...If...If...If..." that expresses her feelings of_______________?

• Uncertainty about the future

• The sting of the Goblin Bee

• Being a housewife

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"I'd brush the Summer by... As Housewives do, a Fly" is an example of which literary device?

• repetition

• simile

• anaphora

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the tone of this poem? (3)

• Happy

• Anxious

• Uncertain

• Humorous

• Longing/Yearning

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4