excerpt adapted from
The Wind
by Emily Dickinson

The wind tapped like a tired man,
And like a host, "Come in,"
I boldly answered; entered then
My residence within

A rapid, footless guest,
To offer whom a chair
Were as impossible as hand
A sofa to the air.

No bone had he to bind him,
His speech was like the push
Of numerous humming-birds at once
From a superior bush.

He visited, still flitting;
Then, like a timid man,
Again he tapped — 't was flurriedly —
And I became alone.


Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu.

Read the poem. Then choose the correct way to complete the sentence.

In the third stanza, the author uses (blank)
to compare hummingbirds to the (blank)
of the wind.
Answers for the first question: an allision
a simile
or a metaphor
Answers for the second question: mood
sound
behavior