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?
Summer

Spring

Winter

Fall
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 iambic tetrameter and pentameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of trochaic pentameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter
5 What does the speaker compare summer to?
The pull of the tide

A beloved guest

A snake in the grass

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

Sylvia Plath

Emily Brontë

William Shakespeare
7 How does the speaker depict time progressing?
Confusingly

Slowly but with lots of attention being paid to it

Imperceptibly but with dramatic aftereffects

Vaguely
8 What best characterizes the tone of the poem?
Bored and irritated

Pointed and dramatic

Somber and doleful

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 beehive

Dusk

Twilight

A summer day
11 What is the genre of the poem?
War poetry

Love sonnet

Nature poetry

Light verse
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 autumn and the passage of time

Between summer and the speaker

Between Emily Dickinson and Emily Brontë

Between the speaker and the passage of time
14 What is the climax of the poem?
When summer "leaps into the beautiful"

When dusk ends

As twilight begins

As winter draws to a close
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Five

One

Six

Four
16 Which of the following lines has assonance?
"The Morning foreign shone —"

"As imperceptibly as Grief"

"Into the Beautiful."

"To seem like Perfidy —"
17 Which pairing of words forms a slant rhyme in the poem?
"Away" and "perfidy"

"Distilled" and "herself"

"Grace" and "wing"

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

An afternoon

Summer

Dusk
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"The Dusk drew earlier in —"

"As Twilight long begun,"

"Our Summer made her light escape"

"Too imperceptible at last"
20 How does the speaker feel about summer?
She endures it without complaint

She dislikes it

She doesn't want it to end

She hardly notices it
21 Which of the following is NOT a stylistic element in the poem?
Unconventional capitalization

Stream of consciousness

Dashes

Slant rhyme
22 How many lines does the poem have?
Thirteen

Twenty two

Sixty

Sixteen
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?
1896

1906

1891

1861
25 What is summer a metaphor for in the poem?
The power of belief

The cruelty of fate

The imperceptibility of time and the loss it causes

The brevity of the seasons

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