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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?
Summer

Fall

Spring

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

A stabilizing structural element on a boat

A type of flower

A rare species of bird
4 What is the meter of the poem?
Lines of trochaic pentameter

Lines of iambic tetrameter and pentameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter
5 What does the speaker compare summer to?
A bird in flight

A snake in the grass

A beloved guest

The pull of the tide
6 Which of the following poets is NOT known for writing about summer?
William Shakespeare

Li Po

Emily Brontë

Sylvia Plath
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

Wistful and melancholy

Pointed and dramatic

Somber and doleful
9 What does "perfidy" mean in the poem?
Intelligence

Kindness

Deceit

Thriftiness
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?
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 dangerous place to be avoided

An scorchingly hot portion of the year

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

Between autumn and the passage of time

Between summer and the speaker

Between Emily Dickinson and Emily Brontë
14 What is the climax of the poem?
When summer "leaps into the beautiful"

As twilight begins

When dusk ends

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

Five

Six

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

"As imperceptibly as Grief"

"Into the Beautiful."

"The Morning foreign shone —"
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

The speaker

Dusk

An afternoon
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 hardly notices it

She endures it without complaint

She doesn't want it to end

She dislikes it
21 Which of the following is NOT a stylistic element in the poem?
Dashes

Stream of consciousness

Unconventional capitalization

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

Thirteen

Sixteen

Twenty two
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?
1861

1906

1896

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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