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As imperceptibly as Grief Quiz

1 What is the main subject of the poem?
The speaker's fear of night

A death in the family

The passage of time

The beauty of the afternoon
2 What season does the speaker describe in depth?
Fall

Spring

Winter

Summer
3 What does the word "keel" refer to?
A form of poetry

A type of flower

A rare species of bird

A stabilizing structural element on a boat
4 What is the meter of the poem?
Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter

Lines of iambic tetrameter and pentameter

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

A beloved guest

The pull of the tide

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

Emily Brontë

Sylvia Plath

Li Po
7 How does the speaker depict time progressing?
Confusingly

Vaguely

Slowly but with lots of attention being paid to it

Imperceptibly but with dramatic aftereffects
8 What best characterizes the tone of the poem?
Pointed and dramatic

Bored and irritated

Wistful and melancholy

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

Kindness

Thriftiness

Deceit
10 Which of the following is NOT an image in the poem?
Twilight

Dusk

A summer day

A beehive
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Love sonnet

Nature poetry

Light verse

War poetry
12 Emily Brontë characterizes summer as which of the following?
An scorchingly hot portion of the year

A serene space for daydreaming

An anxiety-provoking period of time

A dangerous place to be avoided
13 Where is the central conflict of the poem?
Between autumn and the passage of time

Between summer and the speaker

Between Emily Dickinson and Emily Brontë

Between the speaker and the passage of time
14 What is the climax of the poem?
When summer "leaps into the beautiful"

As winter draws to a close

When dusk ends

As twilight begins
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Five

Four

One

Six
16 Which of the following lines has assonance?
"The Morning foreign shone —"

"As imperceptibly as Grief"

"Into the Beautiful."

"To seem like Perfidy —"
17 Which pairing of words forms a slant rhyme in the poem?
"Grief" and "wing"

"Distilled" and "herself"

"Away" and "perfidy"

"Grace" and "wing"
18 What does the word "sequestered" describe in the poem?
An afternoon

Summer

The speaker

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

"As Twilight long begun,"

"Our Summer made her light escape"

"The Dusk drew earlier in —"
20 How does the speaker feel about summer?
She hardly notices it

She endures it without complaint

She dislikes it

She doesn't want it to end
21 Which of the following is NOT a stylistic element in the poem?
Unconventional capitalization

Slant rhyme

Stream of consciousness

Dashes
22 How many lines does the poem have?
Sixteen

Twenty two

Sixty

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

Reveals that the speaker is captain of a whaling ship

Highlights the subtlety of summer's exit

Places the poem in the dead of winter
24 When was the poem published?
1861

1891

1906

1896
25 What is summer a metaphor for in the poem?
The brevity of the seasons

The imperceptibility of time and the loss it causes

The power of belief

The cruelty of fate

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