As imperceptibly as Grief Quizzes

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 beauty of the afternoon

The passage of time
2 What season does the speaker describe in depth?
Summer

Fall

Spring

Winter
3 What does the word "keel" refer to?
A type of flower

A stabilizing structural element on a boat

A rare species of bird

A form of poetry
4 What is the meter of the poem?
Lines of dactylic hexameter

Lines of iambic tetrameter and pentameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

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

A snake in the grass

The pull of the tide

A beloved guest
6 Which of the following poets is NOT known for writing about summer?
Emily Brontë

Li Po

William Shakespeare

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

Pointed and dramatic

Somber and doleful

Wistful and melancholy
9 What does "perfidy" mean in the poem?
Intelligence

Deceit

Kindness

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

A summer day

A beehive

Dusk
11 What is the genre of the poem?
War poetry

Love sonnet

Light verse

Nature 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 the speaker and the passage of time

Between summer and the speaker

Between autumn and the passage of time

Between Emily Dickinson and Emily Brontë
14 What is the climax of the poem?
When dusk ends

When summer "leaps into the beautiful"

As winter draws to a close

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

One

Four

Five
16 Which of the following lines has assonance?
"As imperceptibly as Grief"

"Into the Beautiful."

"To seem like Perfidy —"

"The Morning foreign shone —"
17 Which pairing of words forms a slant rhyme in the poem?
"Away" and "perfidy"

"Distilled" and "herself"

"Grief" and "wing"

"Grace" and "wing"
18 What does the word "sequestered" describe in the poem?
The speaker

Summer

An afternoon

Dusk
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Our Summer made her light escape"

"Too imperceptible at last"

"As Twilight long begun,"

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

She endures it without complaint

She hardly notices it

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

Unconventional capitalization

Slant rhyme

Dashes
22 How many lines does the poem have?
Twenty two

Sixty

Thirteen

Sixteen
23 What function does the symbol of the keel serve in the text?
Highlights the subtlety of summer's exit

Places the poem in the dead of winter

Reveals that the speaker is captain of a whaling ship

Situates the poem on stormy seas
24 When was the poem published?
1906

1896

1891

1861
25 What is summer a metaphor for in the poem?
The power of belief

The imperceptibility of time and the loss it causes

The brevity of the seasons

The cruelty of fate

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