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As imperceptibly as Grief Quiz

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1 What is the main subject of the poem?

The beauty of the afternoon

The passage of time

A death in the family

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

Summer

Spring

Winter

Fall
3 What does the word "keel" refer to?

A stabilizing structural element on a boat

A rare species of bird

A form of poetry

A type of flower
4 What is the meter of the poem?

Lines of iambic tetrameter and pentameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter

Lines of trochaic pentameter
5 What does the speaker compare summer to?

A snake in the grass

The pull of the tide

A bird in flight

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

Sylvia Plath

William Shakespeare

Li Po

Emily Brontë
7 How does the speaker depict time progressing?

Slowly but with lots of attention being paid to it

Confusingly

Imperceptibly but with dramatic aftereffects

Vaguely
8 What best characterizes the tone of the poem?

Bored and irritated

Somber and doleful

Wistful and melancholy

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

Intelligence

Thriftiness

Kindness

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

Dusk

Twilight

A beehive

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

Light verse

Nature poetry

War poetry

Love sonnet
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 Emily Dickinson and Emily Brontë

Between autumn and the passage of time

Between summer and the speaker
14 What is the climax of the poem?

As winter draws to a close

When summer "leaps into the beautiful"

As twilight begins

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

One

Four

Six

Five
16 Which of the following lines has assonance?

"Into the Beautiful."

"The Morning foreign shone —"

"To seem like Perfidy —"

"As imperceptibly as Grief"
17 Which pairing of words forms a slant rhyme in the poem?

"Grief" and "wing"

"Distilled" and "herself"

"Away" and "perfidy"

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

Dusk

The speaker

An afternoon

Summer
19 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Our Summer made her light escape"

"Too imperceptible at last"

"The Dusk drew earlier in —"

"As Twilight long begun,"
20 How does the speaker feel about summer?

She dislikes it

She endures it without complaint

She hardly notices it

She doesn't want it to end
21 Which of the following is NOT a stylistic element in the poem?

Stream of consciousness

Slant rhyme

Dashes

Unconventional capitalization
22 How many lines does the poem have?

Sixteen

Sixty

Twenty two

Thirteen
23 What function does the symbol of the keel serve in the text?

Situates the poem on stormy seas

Places the poem in the dead of winter

Highlights the subtlety of summer's exit

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

1906

1896

1891

1861
25 What is summer a metaphor for in the poem?

The cruelty of fate

The brevity of the seasons

The power of belief

The imperceptibility of time and the loss it causes

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