There are four seasons in a year: winter, spring, summer, autumn. The change of seasons depends on the height of the Sun above the earth and the angle of incidence and reflection of the sun's rays.
Autumn… Favorite season of artists and poets. Everyone has their own associations with autumn.
The lexical meaning of the word "autumn"
Let's start by looking at the lexical meaning of this imaginative noun.
Autumn is:
- The season that comes after a hot summer and precedes a cold winter. Fall is coming soon, get ready for school.
- Mature years of a person. Anna Vasilievna met the autumn of her life in absolute solitude.
Morphological characteristics
As for morphological characteristics, autumn is an inanimate, common noun, feminine, 3rd declension.
- Nominative case: Oh, the autumn came somehow unexpectedly, yesterday it was still a bright summer, and today it's already September.
- Genitive case: Urgently find Varvara Ivanova, how can you start the Autumn Ball without Autumn?
- Dativecase: Surprisingly, by autumn, the road services came fully armed.
- Accusative: I love autumn like only a real poet can love it!
- Instrumental: Birds are scared of coming autumn.
- Prepositional case: A great many songs, poems, and paintings have been written about autumn.
Combination with adjectives
Let's imagine that we are writers or poets. What epithets could we use to describe autumn?
- Incredible: This year was some kind of incredible autumn, It was hot and green like in summer.
- Dreary: I don't want this dull autumn to begin.
- Endless: What an endless autumn, wish it would snow!
- Wonderful: In the wonderful fall of 1997, I met your father.
- Hungry: Hungry, angry, merciless autumn will not spare any animals, birds or small insects.
- Last one: "In the last autumn, not a line, not a sound, the last songs crumbled in the summer" (Yuri Shevchuk).
- Long-awaited: Autumn has never been so long-awaited, in November - our wedding.
- Hospitable: Hospitable, generous autumn brought its gifts: grain, apples, watermelons.
- Mysterious: The story described an unusual, mysterious autumn.
- Swift: A swift autumn swept like a frisky steed, and a long frosty winter came.
- Resplendent: Resplendent Autumn appeared on the scene.
- Gloomy: The gloomy autumn was not long in coming.
- Magical: The storyteller told the children aboutmagical autumn and her little forest friends.
Combination with verbs
It would seem, what can an inanimate autumn do? To prevent excessive repetition of the word "autumn", we have replaced it with an "" sign later in the text.
- Coming, advancing, starting: Tired of summer, would rather come.
- Become:became completely unfriendly and cold.
- End:ended early.
- Kill: killed with her indifference.
- Test:tested wildlife for strength.
- Whisper:softly whispered to the birds flying south: "Don't fly away, stay with me a little longer."
- Drive, drive away:drove insects deep underground.
- Sleep:put to sleep by monotonous rain.
- Bring:brought slush and dirt with her.
- Wash away:showers washed away all past hardships and even the memory of them.
- Get Prettier: A everything is getting prettier, does not want to give beauty to bad weather and winds.
- Surrender:not yet surrendered to the mercy of the victorious winter.
- Thunder:rumbled thunderstorms.
- Paint, decorate:painted the landscape with bright, rich colors.
Changes in nature
Of course, autumn is not only a noun. This is something great.
As we mentioned, autumn is the transitional season from summer to winter.
The sun rises much later, does not shine as bright and hot, does not rise as high and early assummer. Air, soil and water temperatures are dropping. The noise of autumn rain, sung in poems and songs, pleases only if you are in a warm apartment, because they become cold and unpleasantly drizzling. And in late autumn, the rains are completely replaced by wet, corrosive snow. From heavy rainfall, the soil becomes excessively wet and begins to freeze with the onset of frost.
Palette
The autumn palette is associated, on the one hand, with harvest time (all shades of yellow, orange, red, warm brown), on the other hand, with bad weather and bad weather (gray, black, purple, dirty blue).
Yellow leaf fall
Changes in nature, which are known to occur from year to year, affect plant life.
Flowers and herbs wither, leaves turn yellow, redden or turn brown and fall to the ground. This phenomenon, which is the main association with autumn, is called leaf fall. Absolutely all deciduous trees are released from their attire.
Do you know why leaves fall in autumn? In plants, there is a constant movement of juice, and in cold weather it proceeds much more slowly. By the way, fallen leaves are poisonous, animals know about it and do not eat them.
Fade Beauty
Association with autumn is always beauty, but beauty is mature, and by the end of autumn - fading. In the literal and figurative sense. Bright colors: dark green, red, burgundy, orange, terracotta, yellow, crimson - are replaced by dull grays, browns and blacks.
Migratory birds
Birds flying south - moreone sign of autumn. Birds are hungry, because there are fewer fruits and seeds, as well as insects.
Swifts and swallows are the first to fly away. Birds that gather in flocks and fly to warmer climes are called migratory birds. Only omnivorous birds remain to winter. Yes, and they try to settle near human habitation.
The animals are getting ready for winter
Severe cold, the threat of hunger is approaching wild animals. They are not deceived by external beauty. Instinct calls them to prepare for winter. Squirrels, beavers and mice stock up for the winter. And, for example, a bear builds up a thick layer of fat, which also serves as a kind of pantry for him, and fits into a den to sleep for the whole winter.
Wolves, foxes and hares find food even in winter, but they shed their coats and change their summer coats for warmer ones stuffed with fluff.
The fish go deep into the water. Frogs, toads and snakes hibernate.
Autumn and man
What, besides rain and cold, does autumn give a person? Mushrooms, berries are the favorite type of so-called hunting of many people.
Associations with autumn
Let's try to make an associative chain starting with the word autumn: autumn - rain - leaf fall - earth - winter crops - plowing - stock - protein - mushrooms - berries - flowers - september days - September - school - student - teacher - book - tree - bush - yellow - orange - red - beauty.
