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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.
Reading Comprehension Questions
1. What best describes the speaker’s main concern in “If you were coming in the Fall”?
A) They are worried they might be dying.
B) They want to travel away from their home.
C) They want to be reunited with someone they love.
D) They are bored and want time to speed up.
2. What does the speaker talk about in every stanza?
A) A unit of time
B) An animal
C) A body part
D) A country
3. What punctuation mark does the poet use in an unusual way throughout the poem?
A) Period
B) Dash
C) Comma
D) Semicolon
4. In the context of the last stanza, what does the word goads most likely mean?
A) Provokes
B) Kills
C) Buzzes
D) Laughs
5. Based on your knowledge of poetic terms, what type of poem is this?
A) Sonnet
B) Haiku
C) Free verse
D) Lyrical ballad
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