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As imperceptibly as Grief Quiz

1 What is the main subject of the poem?
The beauty of the afternoon

The passage of time

A death in the family

The speaker's fear of night
2 What season does the speaker describe in depth?
Summer

Spring

Winter

Fall
3 What does the word "keel" refer to?
A rare species of bird

A type of flower

A form of poetry

A stabilizing structural element on a boat
4 What is the meter of the poem?
Lines of iambic tetrameter and pentameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of trochaic pentameter
5 What does the speaker compare summer to?
A snake in the grass

A bird in flight

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

Sylvia Plath

William Shakespeare
7 How does the speaker depict time progressing?
Confusingly

Slowly but with lots of attention being paid to it

Imperceptibly but with dramatic aftereffects

Vaguely
8 What best characterizes the tone of the poem?
Pointed and dramatic

Somber and doleful

Bored and irritated

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

Thriftiness

Kindness

Intelligence
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?
Nature poetry

Light verse

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 summer and the speaker

Between the speaker and the passage of time

Between Emily Dickinson and Emily Brontë
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?
Five

Four

One

Six
16 Which of the following lines has assonance?
"The Morning foreign shone —"

"Into the Beautiful."

"To seem like Perfidy —"

"As imperceptibly as Grief"
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?
Summer

Dusk

An afternoon

The speaker
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Too imperceptible at last"

"The Dusk drew earlier in —"

"As Twilight long begun,"

"Our Summer made her light escape"
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?
Dashes

Unconventional capitalization

Stream of consciousness

Slant rhyme
22 How many lines does the poem have?
Sixty

Thirteen

Twenty two

Sixteen
23 What function does the symbol of the keel serve in the text?
Places the poem in the dead of winter

Reveals that the speaker is captain of a whaling ship

Situates the poem on stormy seas

Highlights the subtlety of summer's exit
24 When was the poem published?
1861

1891

1906

1896
25 What is summer a metaphor for in the poem?
The brevity of the seasons

The power of belief

The imperceptibility of time and the loss it causes

The cruelty of fate

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