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

A death in the family

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

Winter

Spring

Fall

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 beloved guest

The pull of the tide

A snake in the grass

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

Emily Brontë

Sylvia Plath

Li Po

William Shakespeare
7 How does the speaker depict time progressing?

Slowly but with lots of attention being paid to it

Confusingly

Vaguely

Imperceptibly but with dramatic aftereffects
8 What best characterizes the tone of the poem?

Bored and irritated

Somber and doleful

Pointed and dramatic

Wistful and melancholy
9 What does "perfidy" mean in the poem?

Thriftiness

Intelligence

Kindness

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

Twilight

A summer day

A beehive

Dusk
11 What is the genre of the poem?

Love sonnet

Light verse

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 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?

As winter draws to a close

When dusk ends

As twilight begins

When summer "leaps into the beautiful"
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?

Five

Four

One

Six
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"

"Grief" and "wing"

"Away" and "perfidy"

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

Summer

The speaker

An afternoon

Dusk
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 hardly notices it

She dislikes it

She doesn't want it to end

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?

Sixteen

Sixty

Twenty two

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

Situates the poem on stormy seas

Highlights the subtlety of summer's exit

Places the poem in the dead of winter

Reveals that the speaker is captain of a whaling ship
24 When was the poem published?

1891

1861

1906

1896
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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