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As imperceptibly as Grief Quiz

1 What is the main subject of the poem?
A death in the family

The beauty of the afternoon

The speaker's fear of night

The passage of time
2 What season does the speaker describe in depth?
Summer

Winter

Fall

Spring
3 What does the word "keel" refer to?
A type of flower

A form of poetry

A stabilizing structural element on a boat

A rare species of bird
4 What is the meter of the poem?
Lines of dactylic hexameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of trochaic pentameter

Lines of iambic tetrameter and pentameter
5 What does the speaker compare summer to?
A beloved guest

A snake in the grass

The pull of the tide

A bird in flight
6 Which of the following poets is NOT known for writing about summer?
Sylvia Plath

Emily Brontë

Li Po

William Shakespeare
7 How does the speaker depict time progressing?
Slowly but with lots of attention being paid to it

Vaguely

Imperceptibly but with dramatic aftereffects

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

Bored and irritated

Somber and doleful

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

Deceit

Kindness

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

A beehive

Twilight

A summer day
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?
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 Emily Dickinson and Emily Brontë

Between autumn and the passage of time
14 What is the climax of the poem?
When summer "leaps into the beautiful"

When dusk ends

As winter draws to a close

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

One

Four

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

"As imperceptibly as Grief"

"To seem like Perfidy —"

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

"Grief" and "wing"

"Away" and "perfidy"

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

The speaker

Summer

An afternoon
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 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?
Slant rhyme

Unconventional capitalization

Stream of consciousness

Dashes
22 How many lines does the poem have?
Thirteen

Twenty two

Sixty

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

Reveals that the speaker is captain of a whaling ship

Places the poem in the dead of winter

Highlights the subtlety of summer's exit
24 When was the poem published?
1896

1891

1861

1906
25 What is summer a metaphor for in the poem?
The imperceptibility of time and the loss it causes

The cruelty of fate

The brevity of the seasons

The power of belief

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