As imperceptibly as Grief Quizzes

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?

Fall

Spring

Winter

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 trochaic pentameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of iambic tetrameter and pentameter

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

The pull of the tide

A beloved guest

A bird in flight

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

Li Po

Sylvia Plath

William Shakespeare

Emily Brontë
7 How does the speaker depict time progressing?

Confusingly

Vaguely

Slowly but with lots of attention being paid to it

Imperceptibly but with dramatic aftereffects
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?

Intelligence

Deceit

Kindness

Thriftiness
10 Which of the following is NOT an image in the poem?

A summer day

Twilight

Dusk

A beehive
11 What is the genre of the poem?

Light verse

Love sonnet

Nature poetry

War poetry
12 Emily Brontë characterizes summer as which of the following?

A serene space for daydreaming

An anxiety-provoking period of time

A dangerous place to be avoided

An scorchingly hot portion of the year
13 Where is the central conflict of the poem?

Between the speaker and the passage of time

Between summer and the speaker

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"

As winter draws to a close

As twilight begins

When dusk ends
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?

Six

Four

Five

One
16 Which of the following lines has assonance?

"As imperceptibly as Grief"

"To seem like Perfidy —"

"Into the Beautiful."

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

"Distilled" and "herself"

"Grace" and "wing"

"Grief" and "wing"

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

Dusk

An afternoon

Summer

The speaker
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 endures it without complaint

She doesn't want it to end

She hardly notices it

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

Slant rhyme

Stream of consciousness

Unconventional capitalization

Dashes
22 How many lines does the poem have?

Sixteen

Sixty

Twenty two

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

Reveals that the speaker is captain of a whaling ship

Situates the poem on stormy seas

Highlights the subtlety of summer's exit

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

1861

1906

1896

1891
25 What is summer a metaphor for in the poem?

The cruelty of fate

The power of belief

The brevity of the seasons

The imperceptibility of time and the loss it causes

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