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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

Winter

Spring

Summer
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 trochaic pentameter

Lines of iambic tetrameter and pentameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter
5 What does the speaker compare summer to?
A bird in flight

A snake in the grass

A beloved guest

The pull of the tide
6 Which of the following poets is NOT known for writing about summer?
Sylvia Plath

Emily Brontë

William Shakespeare

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

Confusingly

Slowly but with lots of attention being paid to it

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

Wistful and melancholy

Somber and doleful

Pointed and dramatic
9 What does "perfidy" mean in the poem?
Deceit

Intelligence

Thriftiness

Kindness
10 Which of the following is NOT an image in the poem?
A summer day

A beehive

Dusk

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

Love sonnet

Nature poetry

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

A dangerous place to be avoided

An anxiety-provoking period of time

A serene space for daydreaming
13 Where is the central conflict of the poem?
Between autumn and the passage of time

Between Emily Dickinson and Emily Brontë

Between the speaker and the passage of time

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

When dusk ends

As twilight begins

As winter draws to a close
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Six

Four

Five

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

"As imperceptibly as Grief"

"Into the Beautiful."

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

"Grief" and "wing"

"Away" and "perfidy"

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

The speaker

Summer

Dusk
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"As Twilight long begun,"

"Our Summer made her light escape"

"Too imperceptible at last"

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

She dislikes it

She doesn't want it to end

She endures it without complaint
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?
Sixty

Sixteen

Thirteen

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

Highlights the subtlety of summer's exit

Places the poem in the dead of winter

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

1896

1861

1891
25 What is summer a metaphor for in the poem?
The imperceptibility of time and the loss it causes

The power of belief

The cruelty of fate

The brevity of the seasons

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