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As imperceptibly as Grief Quiz

1 What is the main subject of the poem?
A death in the family

The beauty of the afternoon

The passage of time

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

Summer

Winter

Spring
3 What does the word "keel" refer to?
A rare species of bird

A stabilizing structural element on a boat

A type of flower

A form of poetry
4 What is the meter of the poem?
Lines of dactylic hexameter

Lines of trochaic pentameter

Lines of iambic tetrameter and pentameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter
5 What does the speaker compare summer to?
A bird in flight

The pull of the tide

A snake in the grass

A beloved guest
6 Which of the following poets is NOT known for writing about summer?
Emily Brontë

William Shakespeare

Li Po

Sylvia Plath
7 How does the speaker depict time progressing?
Vaguely

Confusingly

Imperceptibly but with dramatic aftereffects

Slowly but with lots of attention being paid to it
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?
Kindness

Intelligence

Deceit

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

A summer day

Twilight

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

War poetry

Love sonnet

Nature poetry
12 Emily Brontë characterizes summer as which of the following?
An scorchingly hot portion of the year

A serene space for daydreaming

A dangerous place to be avoided

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

Between autumn and the passage of time

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"

As twilight begins

As winter draws to a close

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

One

Six

Four
16 Which of the following lines has assonance?
"Into the Beautiful."

"The Morning foreign shone —"

"As imperceptibly as Grief"

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

"Grace" and "wing"

"Grief" and "wing"

"Distilled" and "herself"
18 What does the word "sequestered" describe in the poem?
The speaker

An afternoon

Summer

Dusk
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"As Twilight long begun,"

"Our Summer made her light escape"

"Too imperceptible at last"

"The Dusk drew earlier in —"
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?
Stream of consciousness

Unconventional capitalization

Slant rhyme

Dashes
22 How many lines does the poem have?
Thirteen

Sixteen

Twenty two

Sixty
23 What function does the symbol of the keel serve in the text?
Highlights the subtlety of summer's exit

Places the poem in the dead of winter

Situates the poem on stormy seas

Reveals that the speaker is captain of a whaling ship
24 When was the poem published?
1896

1891

1906

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

The brevity of the seasons

The cruelty of fate

The imperceptibility of time and the loss it causes

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