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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

The speaker's fear of night

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

Summer

Winter

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 trochaic pentameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

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

A snake in the grass

A bird in flight

The pull of the tide
6 Which of the following poets is NOT known for writing about summer?
Sylvia Plath

William Shakespeare

Emily Brontë

Li Po
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?
Wistful and melancholy

Bored and irritated

Pointed and dramatic

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

Intelligence

Deceit

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

Dusk

A beehive

A summer day
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Light verse

Love sonnet

War poetry

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 Emily Dickinson and Emily Brontë

Between the speaker and the passage of time

Between autumn and the passage of time

Between summer and the speaker
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?
Four

Six

Five

One
16 Which of the following lines has assonance?
"To seem like Perfidy —"

"The Morning foreign shone —"

"As imperceptibly as Grief"

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

"Away" and "perfidy"

"Grace" and "wing"

"Grief" and "wing"
18 What does the word "sequestered" describe in the poem?
Summer

An afternoon

Dusk

The speaker
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 dislikes it

She hardly notices it

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

Dashes

Stream of consciousness

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

Thirteen

Sixty

Twenty two
23 What function does the symbol of the keel serve in the text?
Highlights the subtlety of summer's exit

Reveals that the speaker is captain of a whaling ship

Situates the poem on stormy seas

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 imperceptibility of time and the loss it causes

The brevity of the seasons

The cruelty of fate

The power of belief

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