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As imperceptibly as Grief Quiz

1 What is the main subject of the poem?
A death in the family

The beauty of the afternoon

The passage of time

The speaker's fear of night
2 What season does the speaker describe in depth?
Summer

Fall

Winter

Spring
3 What does the word "keel" refer to?
A rare species of bird

A stabilizing structural element on a boat

A type of flower

A form of poetry
4 What is the meter of the poem?
Lines of iambic tetrameter and pentameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter

Lines of trochaic pentameter
5 What does the speaker compare summer to?
A bird in flight

The pull of the tide

A beloved guest

A snake in the grass
6 Which of the following poets is NOT known for writing about summer?
Emily Brontë

William Shakespeare

Sylvia Plath

Li Po
7 How does the speaker depict time progressing?
Slowly but with lots of attention being paid to it

Imperceptibly but with dramatic aftereffects

Vaguely

Confusingly
8 What best characterizes the tone of the poem?
Wistful and melancholy

Bored and irritated

Pointed and dramatic

Somber and doleful
9 What does "perfidy" mean in the poem?
Deceit

Intelligence

Kindness

Thriftiness
10 Which of the following is NOT an image in the poem?
Dusk

A summer day

A beehive

Twilight
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Nature poetry

Light verse

Love sonnet

War poetry
12 Emily Brontë characterizes summer as which of the following?
A dangerous place to be avoided

An anxiety-provoking period of time

A serene space for daydreaming

An scorchingly hot portion of the year
13 Where is the central conflict of the poem?
Between autumn and the passage of time

Between the speaker and the passage of time

Between Emily Dickinson and Emily Brontë

Between summer and the speaker
14 What is the climax of the poem?
As winter draws to a close

As twilight begins

When summer "leaps into the beautiful"

When dusk ends
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
One

Four

Six

Five
16 Which of the following lines has assonance?
"To seem like Perfidy —"

"As imperceptibly as Grief"

"The Morning foreign shone —"

"Into the Beautiful."
17 Which pairing of words forms a slant rhyme in the poem?
"Grace" and "wing"

"Distilled" and "herself"

"Grief" and "wing"

"Away" and "perfidy"
18 What does the word "sequestered" describe in the poem?
Summer

The speaker

Dusk

An afternoon
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Too imperceptible at last"

"The Dusk drew earlier in —"

"Our Summer made her light escape"

"As Twilight long begun,"
20 How does the speaker feel about summer?
She dislikes it

She doesn't want it to end

She hardly notices it

She endures it without complaint
21 Which of the following is NOT a stylistic element in the poem?
Unconventional capitalization

Slant rhyme

Dashes

Stream of consciousness
22 How many lines does the poem have?
Sixteen

Sixty

Thirteen

Twenty two
23 What function does the symbol of the keel serve in the text?
Situates the poem on stormy seas

Places the poem in the dead of winter

Highlights the subtlety of summer's exit

Reveals that the speaker is captain of a whaling ship
24 When was the poem published?
1891

1896

1906

1861
25 What is summer a metaphor for in the poem?
The cruelty of fate

The imperceptibility of time and the loss it causes

The power of belief

The brevity of the seasons

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