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As imperceptibly as Grief Quiz

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

The beauty of the afternoon

A death in the family

The speaker's fear of night
2 What season does the speaker describe in depth?
Winter

Fall

Summer

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

A form of poetry

A type of flower

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

Lines of trochaic pentameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter
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

Li Po

Sylvia Plath

Emily Brontë
7 How does the speaker depict time progressing?
Vaguely

Confusingly

Imperceptibly but with dramatic aftereffects

Slowly but with lots of attention being paid to it
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?
Intelligence

Kindness

Thriftiness

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

Twilight

A beehive

Dusk
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Nature poetry

War poetry

Love sonnet

Light verse
12 Emily Brontë characterizes summer as which of the following?
A serene space for daydreaming

A dangerous place to be avoided

An anxiety-provoking period of time

An scorchingly hot portion of the year
13 Where is the central conflict of the poem?
Between autumn and the passage of time

Between summer and the speaker

Between the speaker 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 summer "leaps into the beautiful"

When dusk ends

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

Four

Six

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

"The Morning foreign shone —"

"Into the Beautiful."

"As imperceptibly as Grief"
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?
Dusk

Summer

The speaker

An afternoon
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Too imperceptible at last"

"The Dusk drew earlier in —"

"As Twilight long begun,"

"Our Summer made her light escape"
20 How does the speaker feel about summer?
She endures it without complaint

She dislikes it

She hardly notices it

She doesn't want it to end
21 Which of the following is NOT a stylistic element in the poem?
Slant rhyme

Stream of consciousness

Unconventional capitalization

Dashes
22 How many lines does the poem have?
Twenty two

Thirteen

Sixteen

Sixty
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

Reveals that the speaker is captain of a whaling ship

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

1891

1896

1906
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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