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As imperceptibly as Grief Quiz

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

The passage of time

The beauty of the afternoon

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

Summer

Winter

Spring
3 What does the word "keel" refer to?
A stabilizing structural element on a boat

A form of poetry

A rare species of bird

A type of flower
4 What is the meter of the poem?
Lines of iambic tetrameter and pentameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of trochaic pentameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter
5 What does the speaker compare summer to?
A snake in the grass

A beloved guest

The pull of the tide

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

Emily Brontë

Li Po

Sylvia Plath
7 How does the speaker depict time progressing?
Confusingly

Imperceptibly but with dramatic aftereffects

Vaguely

Slowly but with lots of attention being paid to it
8 What best characterizes the tone of the poem?
Bored and irritated

Wistful and melancholy

Pointed and dramatic

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

Thriftiness

Intelligence

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

Twilight

A summer day

A beehive
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Nature poetry

Love sonnet

War poetry

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

An anxiety-provoking period of time

A serene space for daydreaming

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

Between Emily Dickinson and Emily Brontë

Between summer and the speaker

Between autumn and the passage of time
14 What is the climax of the poem?
As winter draws to a close

As twilight begins

When dusk ends

When summer "leaps into the beautiful"
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Six

One

Four

Five
16 Which of the following lines has assonance?
"Into the Beautiful."

"The Morning foreign shone —"

"As imperceptibly as Grief"

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

"Grief" and "wing"

"Grace" and "wing"

"Distilled" and "herself"
18 What does the word "sequestered" describe in the poem?
Summer

Dusk

The speaker

An afternoon
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"The Dusk drew earlier in —"

"Our Summer made her light escape"

"Too imperceptible at last"

"As Twilight long begun,"
20 How does the speaker feel about summer?
She doesn't want it to end

She endures it without complaint

She hardly notices it

She dislikes it
21 Which of the following is NOT a stylistic element in the poem?
Stream of consciousness

Dashes

Slant rhyme

Unconventional capitalization
22 How many lines does the poem have?
Thirteen

Sixty

Twenty two

Sixteen
23 What function does the symbol of the keel serve in the text?
Places the poem in the dead of winter

Situates the poem on stormy seas

Highlights the subtlety of summer's exit

Reveals that the speaker is captain of a whaling ship
24 When was the poem published?
1896

1906

1861

1891
25 What is summer a metaphor for in the poem?
The power of belief

The brevity of the seasons

The cruelty of fate

The imperceptibility of time and the loss it causes

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