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As imperceptibly as Grief Quiz

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

The beauty of the afternoon

The passage of time

A death in the family
2 What season does the speaker describe in depth?
Spring

Fall

Summer

Winter
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 trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of iambic tetrameter and pentameter

Lines of trochaic pentameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter
5 What does the speaker compare summer to?
A beloved guest

A bird in flight

The pull of the tide

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

Emily Brontë

William Shakespeare

Sylvia Plath
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

Somber and doleful

Wistful and melancholy

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

Kindness

Thriftiness

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

Dusk

Twilight

A summer day
11 What is the genre of the poem?
War poetry

Light verse

Nature poetry

Love sonnet
12 Emily Brontë characterizes summer as which of the following?
An anxiety-provoking period of time

A dangerous place to be avoided

A serene space for daydreaming

An scorchingly hot portion of the year
13 Where is the central conflict of the poem?
Between Emily Dickinson and Emily Brontë

Between the speaker and the passage of time

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

When summer "leaps into the beautiful"

When dusk ends

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

Five

One

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

"As imperceptibly as Grief"

"To seem like Perfidy —"

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

"Grace" and "wing"

"Grief" and "wing"

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

Dusk

An afternoon

The speaker
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 endures it without complaint

She hardly notices it

She doesn't want it to end

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

Dashes

Unconventional capitalization

Stream of consciousness
22 How many lines does the poem have?
Thirteen

Sixteen

Twenty two

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

Situates the poem on stormy seas

Reveals that the speaker is captain of a whaling ship

Places the poem in the dead of winter
24 When was the poem published?
1891

1896

1906

1861
25 What is summer a metaphor for in the poem?
The cruelty of fate

The imperceptibility of time and the loss it causes

The brevity of the seasons

The power of belief

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