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As imperceptibly as Grief Quiz

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1 What is the main subject of the poem?

The speaker's fear of night

The passage of time

The beauty of the afternoon

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

Spring

Winter

Fall

Summer
3 What does the word "keel" refer to?

A rare species of bird

A form of poetry

A type of flower

A stabilizing structural element on a boat
4 What is the meter of the poem?

Lines of iambic tetrameter and pentameter

Lines of trochaic 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?

Li Po

Sylvia Plath

Emily Brontë

William Shakespeare
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

Deceit

Thriftiness
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?

Light verse

Nature poetry

War poetry

Love sonnet
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 autumn and the passage of time

Between the speaker and the passage of time

Between Emily Dickinson and Emily Brontë

Between summer and the speaker
14 What is the climax of the poem?

As twilight begins

When dusk ends

When summer "leaps into the beautiful"

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

Six

Four

One

Five
16 Which of the following lines has assonance?

"The Morning foreign shone —"

"To seem like Perfidy —"

"As imperceptibly as Grief"

"Into the Beautiful."
17 Which pairing of words forms a slant rhyme in the poem?

"Grace" and "wing"

"Away" and "perfidy"

"Grief" and "wing"

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

Dusk

An afternoon

The speaker

Summer
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"The Dusk drew earlier in —"

"Too imperceptible at last"

"Our Summer made her light escape"

"As Twilight long begun,"
20 How does the speaker feel about summer?

She dislikes it

She hardly notices 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?

Slant rhyme

Unconventional capitalization

Stream of consciousness

Dashes
22 How many lines does the poem have?

Sixteen

Sixty

Thirteen

Twenty two
23 What function does the symbol of the keel serve in the text?

Highlights the subtlety of summer's exit

Reveals that the speaker is captain of a whaling ship

Situates the poem on stormy seas

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

1861

1896

1891

1906
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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