As imperceptibly as Grief Quizzes

As imperceptibly as Grief Quiz

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?
Summer

Spring

Fall

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

A stabilizing structural element on a boat

A type of flower

A form of poetry
4 What is the meter of the poem?
Lines of iambic tetrameter and pentameter

Lines of trochaic pentameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter
5 What does the speaker compare summer to?
A bird in flight

A beloved guest

A snake in the grass

The pull of the tide
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?
Slowly but with lots of attention being paid to it

Imperceptibly but with dramatic aftereffects

Vaguely

Confusingly
8 What best characterizes the tone of the poem?
Wistful and melancholy

Pointed and dramatic

Bored and irritated

Somber and doleful
9 What does "perfidy" mean in the poem?
Thriftiness

Deceit

Intelligence

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

Twilight

A beehive

Dusk
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Love sonnet

War poetry

Light verse

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

A dangerous place to be avoided

A serene space for daydreaming

An anxiety-provoking period of time
13 Where is the central conflict of the poem?
Between summer and the speaker

Between the speaker and the passage of time

Between autumn 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?
One

Five

Six

Four
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?
"Grace" and "wing"

"Distilled" and "herself"

"Grief" and "wing"

"Away" and "perfidy"
18 What does the word "sequestered" describe in the poem?
The speaker

Dusk

Summer

An afternoon
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Too imperceptible at last"

"Our Summer made her light escape"

"As Twilight long begun,"

"The Dusk drew earlier in —"
20 How does the speaker feel about summer?
She doesn't want it to end

She hardly notices it

She dislikes it

She endures it without complaint
21 Which of the following is NOT a stylistic element in the poem?
Unconventional capitalization

Stream of consciousness

Slant rhyme

Dashes
22 How many lines does the poem have?
Twenty two

Thirteen

Sixteen

Sixty
23 What function does the symbol of the keel serve in the text?
Situates the poem on stormy seas

Places the poem in the dead of winter

Reveals that the speaker is captain of a whaling ship

Highlights the subtlety of summer's exit
24 When was the poem published?
1891

1896

1861

1906
25 What is summer a metaphor for in the poem?
The power of belief

The brevity of the seasons

The cruelty of fate

The imperceptibility of time and the loss it causes

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