1 What is the main subject of the poem? A death in the family The speaker's fear of night The beauty of the afternoon The passage of time 2 What season does the speaker describe in depth? Fall Spring Winter Summer 3 What does the word "keel" refer to? A rare species of bird A form of poetry A stabilizing structural element on a boat A type of flower 4 What is the meter of the poem? Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter Lines of trochaic pentameter Lines of iambic tetrameter and pentameter Lines of dactylic hexameter 5 What does the speaker compare summer to? A beloved guest A snake in the grass The pull of the tide A bird in flight 6 Which of the following poets is NOT known for writing about summer? Sylvia Plath Emily Brontë Li Po William Shakespeare 7 How does the speaker depict time progressing? Imperceptibly but with dramatic aftereffects Slowly but with lots of attention being paid to it Confusingly Vaguely 8 What best characterizes the tone of the poem? Pointed and dramatic Somber and doleful Wistful and melancholy Bored and irritated 9 What does "perfidy" mean in the poem? Deceit Kindness Thriftiness Intelligence 10 Which of the following is NOT an image in the poem? Twilight A beehive Dusk A summer day 11 What is the genre of the poem? Light verse War poetry Love sonnet Nature poetry 12 Emily Brontë characterizes summer as which of the following? A serene space for daydreaming A dangerous place to be avoided An scorchingly hot portion of the year An anxiety-provoking period of time 13 Where is the central conflict of the poem? Between the speaker and the passage of time Between Emily Dickinson and Emily Brontë Between autumn and the passage of time 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? Five Four Six One 16 Which of the following lines has assonance? "Into the Beautiful." "To seem like Perfidy —" "The Morning foreign shone —" "As imperceptibly as Grief" 17 Which pairing of words forms a slant rhyme in the poem? "Grief" and "wing" "Grace" and "wing" "Distilled" and "herself" "Away" and "perfidy" 18 What does the word "sequestered" describe in the poem? An afternoon Dusk The speaker Summer 19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration? "The Dusk drew earlier in —" "As Twilight long begun," "Our Summer made her light escape" "Too imperceptible at last" 20 How does the speaker feel about summer? She doesn't want it to end She dislikes it She endures it without complaint She hardly notices it 21 Which of the following is NOT a stylistic element in the poem? Unconventional capitalization Dashes Stream of consciousness Slant rhyme 22 How many lines does the poem have? Sixteen Thirteen Sixty Twenty two 23 What function does the symbol of the keel serve in the text? Reveals that the speaker is captain of a whaling ship Situates the poem on stormy seas Highlights the subtlety of summer's exit Places the poem in the dead of winter 24 When was the poem published? 1896 1906 1891 1861 25 What is summer a metaphor for in the poem? The brevity of the seasons The power of belief The cruelty of fate The imperceptibility of time and the loss it causes