Winds of Autumn Quiz

What is the poem mainly about?

• The changes that autumn brings

• the speaker's dislike of winter

• The migration of geese

• carving jack-o'-lanterns

Which statement about the poem's rhyme pattern?

• It has no rhythm or rhyme

• The lines of each stanza rhyme

• Every other line rhymes

• Only the first and last lines of the poem rhyme

In the 1st stanza, the speaker uses figurative language to compare autumn to...

• gold

• a woman

• the summer

• a tree

Read these lines from the poem.

Her golden hues soon fade away,

Leaving branches bare and gray.

Which word means about the same as hues?

• hair

• wealth

• colors

• crowns

In describing the geese, the speaker appeals to which sense?

• hearing

• smell

• taste

• touch

Which detail gives an image of summer?

• The bare, gray branches

• The droning bees

• The falling leaves

• The jack-o'-lantern's glow

Which sentence best describes the theme of this poem?

• Everything young will one day grow old.

• Though autumn is harsh, winter is worse.

• Though the day may be beautiful, it is foolish to display your riches.

• When autumn comes, summer becomes a distant memory.

An example of onomatopoeia in this poem is...

• summer goes its way

• bare and gray

• honking cries

• drops in western skies

Read the following lines from the poem.

The sun takes longer now to rise

And sooner drops in western skies.

In these lines, the speaker is describing...

• how days grow cooler in the fall

• how days grow shorter in the fall

• why the jack-o'-lantern glows

• why butterflies and geese have flown away