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As imperceptibly as Grief Quiz

1 What is the main subject of the poem?
The passage of time

A death in the family

The speaker's fear of night

The beauty of the afternoon
2 What season does the speaker describe in depth?
Summer

Spring

Fall

Winter
3 What does the word "keel" refer to?
A form of poetry

A type of flower

A rare species of bird

A stabilizing structural element on a boat
4 What is the meter of the poem?
Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter

Lines of iambic tetrameter and pentameter

Lines of trochaic pentameter
5 What does the speaker compare summer to?
A bird in flight

The pull of the tide

A snake in the grass

A beloved guest
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?
Wistful and melancholy

Bored and irritated

Pointed and dramatic

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

Thriftiness

Kindness

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

A beehive

Twilight

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 dangerous place to be avoided

An anxiety-provoking period of time

A serene space for daydreaming

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 Emily Dickinson and Emily Brontë

Between summer and the speaker

Between autumn and the passage of time
14 What is the climax of the poem?
As twilight begins

As winter draws to a close

When dusk ends

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

One

Four

Five
16 Which of the following lines has assonance?
"As imperceptibly as Grief"

"To seem like Perfidy —"

"The Morning foreign shone —"

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

"Distilled" and "herself"

"Away" and "perfidy"

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

The speaker

Dusk

An afternoon
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"As Twilight long begun,"

"The Dusk drew earlier in —"

"Too imperceptible at last"

"Our Summer made her light escape"
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?
Dashes

Unconventional capitalization

Slant rhyme

Stream of consciousness
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

Highlights the subtlety of summer's exit

Places the poem in the dead of winter

Situates the poem on stormy seas
24 When was the poem published?
1906

1891

1896

1861
25 What is summer a metaphor for in the poem?
The brevity of the seasons

The cruelty of fate

The imperceptibility of time and the loss it causes

The power of belief

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