As imperceptibly as Grief Quizzes

As imperceptibly as Grief Quiz

1 What is the main subject of the poem?
The speaker's fear of night

The beauty of the afternoon

The passage of time

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

Fall

Spring

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

A type of flower

A stabilizing structural element on a boat

A form of poetry
4 What is the meter of the poem?
Lines of dactylic hexameter

Lines of trochaic pentameter

Lines of iambic tetrameter and pentameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter
5 What does the speaker compare summer to?
A snake in the grass

The pull of the tide

A beloved guest

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

Sylvia Plath

Li Po

Emily Brontë
7 How does the speaker depict time progressing?
Imperceptibly but with dramatic aftereffects

Slowly but with lots of attention being paid to it

Vaguely

Confusingly
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?
Kindness

Intelligence

Deceit

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

A summer day

A beehive

Twilight
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 scorchingly hot portion of the year

A dangerous place to be avoided

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

Between Emily Dickinson and Emily Brontë

Between the speaker and the passage of time

Between autumn and the passage of time
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

Five

Four

One
16 Which of the following lines has assonance?
"Into the Beautiful."

"As imperceptibly as Grief"

"The Morning foreign shone —"

"To seem like Perfidy —"
17 Which pairing of words forms a slant rhyme in the poem?
"Grief" and "wing"

"Distilled" and "herself"

"Grace" and "wing"

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

Summer

Dusk

An afternoon
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Our Summer made her light escape"

"Too imperceptible at last"

"As Twilight long begun,"

"The Dusk drew earlier in —"
20 How does the speaker feel about summer?
She hardly notices it

She dislikes it

She endures it without complaint

She doesn't want it to end
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?
Sixty

Twenty two

Thirteen

Sixteen
23 What function does the symbol of the keel serve in the text?
Reveals that the speaker is captain of a whaling ship

Highlights the subtlety of summer's exit

Situates the poem on stormy seas

Places the poem in the dead of winter
24 When was the poem published?
1861

1896

1906

1891
25 What is summer a metaphor for in the poem?
The brevity of the seasons

The imperceptibility of time and the loss it causes

The cruelty of fate

The power of belief

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