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As imperceptibly as Grief Quiz

1 What is the main subject of the poem?
The speaker's fear of night

A death in the family

The passage of time

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

Spring

Winter

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

A rare species of bird

A stabilizing structural element on a boat

A type of flower
4 What is the meter of the poem?
Lines of iambic tetrameter and pentameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter

Lines of trochaic pentameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter
5 What does the speaker compare summer to?
The pull of the tide

A snake in the grass

A bird in flight

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?
Confusingly

Slowly but with lots of attention being paid to it

Vaguely

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

Bored and irritated

Somber and doleful

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

Kindness

Intelligence

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

Dusk

A summer day

A beehive
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Nature poetry

Love sonnet

Light verse

War poetry
12 Emily Brontë characterizes summer as which of the following?
A dangerous place to be avoided

A serene space for daydreaming

An scorchingly hot portion of the year

An anxiety-provoking period of time
13 Where is the central conflict of the poem?
Between the speaker and the passage of time

Between summer and the speaker

Between autumn and the passage of time

Between Emily Dickinson and Emily Brontë
14 What is the climax of the poem?
As twilight begins

When dusk ends

As winter draws to a close

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

Four

Six

Five
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?
"Grace" and "wing"

"Distilled" and "herself"

"Away" and "perfidy"

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

Dusk

Summer

The speaker
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Too imperceptible at last"

"Our Summer made her light escape"

"As Twilight long begun,"

"The Dusk drew earlier in —"
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?
Dashes

Unconventional capitalization

Slant rhyme

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

Sixty

Thirteen

Twenty two
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?
1891

1896

1906

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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