The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Pathetic Fallacy

Alliteration

Personification

Metaphor
2 Shelley famously admonished which first-generation Romantic poet for his conservative ideals?
William Wordsworth

William Blake

John Keats

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3 Which is an example of simile?
"I change, but I cannot die"

"Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof"

"And white the green plains asunder/And then again I dissolve it in rain"

"I am the daughter of Earth and Water"
4 The cloud is "the daughter of ______ and ______"
Earth and Sky

Water and Wind

Sky and Water

Earth and Water
5 The Cloud interacts with all but
the mountains

the Moon

Lightning

the Sunrise
6 "I ______, but I cannot die."
trip

sleep

fall

change
7 "The _______ Sunrise, with his meteor eyes"
rosy

red

sanguine

sallow
8 Shelley uses what kind of poetic meter in "The Cloud"?
spondaic

trochaic

iambic

anapestic
9 At the end of stanza three, the Cloud compares itself to what kind of animal?
a bear

a dove

a tiger

an eagle
10 Which of the following is NOT a theme of the poem?
Death

Rebirth

Power

Nature
11 Of all the Romantic poets, Shelley was most known for _______
his radical political beliefs

his epic poems

his love for Mary Shelley

his admiration for classic poetry
12 A cenotaph is ______
a statue

a sign marking a historical location

a sarcophagus

an empty tomb or monument
13 "Like a child from the womb, like a _______ from the tomb"
spirit

skeleton

ghost

body
14 As the Cloud "marches" across the sky, what follows in its wake?
clear skies

a rainbow

sunbeams

all of the above
15 Shelley frequently turned to which source for poetic inspiration and symbolism?
Political philosophy

Dreams

Nature

His fellow poets
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________
he refused to respect professors

he cheated on his essays

he never attended class

he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism
17 Shelley was a great admirer of ______, a philosopher who was also Mary Shelley's father
Thomas Hobbes

William Godwin

Thomas More

William Wordsworth
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______
Spain

France

England

Italy
19 Shelley uses _____ in stanza 1, or the repetition of a single word or phrase at the beginning of several lines
Anaphora

Alliteration

Pathetic Fallacy

Onomatopoeia
20 Which best characterizes the relationships described in "The Cloud"?
Distant

Non-hierarchical

Loving

Competitive
21 Which of the following does the cloud describe as a "pilot"?
The sun

Lightning

Mountains

The stars
22 Which of the following did Shelley NOT advocate for?
Vegetarianism

Republicanism

Women's Suffrage

Atheism
23 "In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It __ and __ at fits;"
frolics and hops

grumbles and groans

struggles and howls

arches and dives
24 The moon is personified as which of the following?
A nun

A baby

An old woman

A maiden
25 How many stanzas does this poem contain?
six

four

two

nine

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