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1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?

Metaphor

Alliteration

Pathetic Fallacy

Personification
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 Water

Earth and Sky

Sky and Water

Water and Wind
5 The Cloud interacts with all but

Lightning

the Moon

the Sunrise

the mountains
6 "I ______, but I cannot die."

change

sleep

fall

trip
7 "The _______ Sunrise, with his meteor eyes"

sanguine

sallow

rosy

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

anapestic

iambic

trochaic

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

a bear

a tiger

an eagle

a dove
10 Which of the following is NOT a theme of the poem?

Rebirth

Death

Nature

Power
11 Of all the Romantic poets, Shelley was most known for _______

his admiration for classic poetry

his love for Mary Shelley

his epic poems

his radical political beliefs
12 A cenotaph is ______

a statue

a sarcophagus

a sign marking a historical location

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

spirit

body

skeleton

ghost
14 As the Cloud "marches" across the sky, what follows in its wake?

sunbeams

clear skies

a rainbow

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

Nature

Political philosophy

His fellow poets

Dreams
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________

he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism

he refused to respect professors

he cheated on his essays

he never attended class
17 Shelley was a great admirer of ______, a philosopher who was also Mary Shelley's father

Thomas More

William Godwin

Thomas Hobbes

William Wordsworth
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______

France

Italy

Spain

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

Alliteration

Anaphora

Onomatopoeia

Pathetic Fallacy
20 Which best characterizes the relationships described in "The Cloud"?

Non-hierarchical

Distant

Loving

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

Mountains

The sun

Lightning

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

Atheism

Republicanism

Women's Suffrage

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

grumbles and groans

struggles and howls

frolics and hops

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

A maiden

A baby

An old woman

A nun
25 How many stanzas does this poem contain?

nine

six

four

two

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