As imperceptibly as Grief Quizzes

As imperceptibly as Grief Quiz

1 What is the main subject of the poem?

The passage of time

A death in the family

The beauty of the afternoon

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

Spring

Winter

Summer

Fall
3 What does the word "keel" refer to?

A rare species of bird

A form of poetry

A stabilizing structural element on a boat

A type of flower
4 What is the meter of the poem?

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of iambic tetrameter and pentameter

Lines of trochaic pentameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter
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?

Sylvia Plath

Emily Brontë

William Shakespeare

Li Po
7 How does the speaker depict time progressing?

Slowly but with lots of attention being paid to it

Vaguely

Confusingly

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

Bored and irritated

Wistful and melancholy

Somber and doleful

Pointed and dramatic
9 What does "perfidy" mean in the poem?

Deceit

Intelligence

Thriftiness

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

A beehive

Dusk

A summer day

Twilight
11 What is the genre of the poem?

Love sonnet

War poetry

Light verse

Nature poetry
12 Emily Brontë characterizes summer as which of the following?

An anxiety-provoking period of time

A serene space for daydreaming

An scorchingly hot portion of the year

A dangerous place to be avoided
13 Where is the central conflict of the poem?

Between Emily Dickinson and Emily Brontë

Between summer and the speaker

Between the speaker and the passage of time

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

As winter draws to a close

When summer "leaps into the beautiful"

As twilight begins

When dusk ends
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?

One

Four

Five

Six
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?

"Distilled" and "herself"

"Grief" and "wing"

"Away" and "perfidy"

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

The speaker

Dusk

An afternoon

Summer
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"The Dusk drew earlier in —"

"As Twilight long begun,"

"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 hardly notices it

She dislikes it

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

Unconventional capitalization

Slant rhyme

Dashes

Stream of consciousness
22 How many lines does the poem have?

Sixty

Thirteen

Twenty two

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

Reveals that the speaker is captain of a whaling ship

Situates the poem on stormy seas

Highlights the subtlety of summer's exit

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

1891

1896

1906

1861
25 What is summer a metaphor for in the poem?

The cruelty of fate

The brevity of the seasons

The imperceptibility of time and the loss it causes

The power of belief

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