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 passage of time

The beauty of the afternoon

A death in the family
2 What season does the speaker describe in depth?
Spring

Summer

Fall

Winter
3 What does the word "keel" refer to?
A type of flower

A form of poetry

A stabilizing structural element on a boat

A rare species of bird
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 beloved guest

A snake in the grass

A bird in flight
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?
Slowly but with lots of attention being paid to it

Vaguely

Imperceptibly but with dramatic aftereffects

Confusingly
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?
Kindness

Deceit

Thriftiness

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

Dusk

Twilight

A beehive
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Light verse

Love sonnet

Nature poetry

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

An anxiety-provoking period of time

An scorchingly hot portion of the year

A serene space for daydreaming
13 Where is the central conflict of the poem?
Between summer and the speaker

Between the speaker and the passage of time

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

When summer "leaps into the beautiful"

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

Six

One

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?
"Away" and "perfidy"

"Grace" and "wing"

"Distilled" and "herself"

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

An afternoon

The speaker

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

"Too imperceptible at last"

"Our Summer made her light escape"

"As Twilight long begun,"
20 How does the speaker feel about summer?
She hardly notices it

She dislikes it

She endures it without complaint

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

Dashes

Unconventional capitalization
22 How many lines does the poem have?
Thirteen

Twenty two

Sixteen

Sixty
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?
1861

1896

1906

1891
25 What is summer a metaphor for in the poem?
The imperceptibility of time and the loss it causes

The cruelty of fate

The brevity of the seasons

The power of belief

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