Poetry Anthology - As Imperceptibly As Grief

Who wrote 'As Immperceptibly as Grief'?

• Emily Dickinson
• Emily Bronte
• Emily Blunt
• Emily Barton

What does 'imperceptibly' mean?

• So subtle and unnoticeably changing
• Of great significance
• Of vital importance
• Not likely to happen

What is the overall tone of As Imperceptibly as Grief? Choose all the correct answers.

• Melancholic

• Mournful

• Nostalgic

• Positive

Emily Dickinson’s poetry was published posthumously. What does this mean?

• After death
• Without permission
• Under a different name
• After she married

What does As Imperceptibly as Grief compare?

• The departure of summer to the departure of happiness
• The departure of the sun to the departure of a boat
• The departure of the sun to the departure of a bird
• The departure of nature to the departure of the light

In As Imperceptibly as Grief, what technique has been used in the line 'Our Summer made her light escape / Into the Beautiful'?

• Personification
• Alliteration
• Rhetorical question
• Caesura

Why are many of the words in As Imperceptibly as Grief capitalised?

• To show the importance of the feeling or thing the narrator is describing
• A typo by the publishers
• The poet had poor knowledge of spelling and punctuation
• Writers used to use capital letters in this way at the time the poem was written

Complete the quote from 'As Imperceptibly As Grief': "Our summer made her light escape into the ________"

• horizon

• sky

• beautiful

• heavens

Complete the quote from 'As Imperceptibly as Grief': "_______ long begun".

• sadness

• happiness

• nighttime

• twilight

'As Imperceptibly As Grief' has four stanzas all with four lines representing....

• the four seasons, thus the passing of time.

• the repetitive nature of her life

• the constant state of her sadness

• how happy the poet is