The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Pathetic Fallacy

Metaphor

Alliteration

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 am the daughter of Earth and Water"

"Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof"

"I change, but I cannot die"

"And white the green plains asunder/And then again I dissolve it in rain"
4 The cloud is "the daughter of ______ and ______"
Earth and Sky

Sky and Water

Water and Wind

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

the mountains

Lightning

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

trip

sleep

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

rosy

sanguine

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 tiger

a dove

an eagle

a bear
10 Which of the following is NOT a theme of the poem?
Power

Nature

Rebirth

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

his admiration for classic poetry

his epic poems

his love for Mary Shelley
12 A cenotaph is ______
a statue

an empty tomb or monument

a sarcophagus

a sign marking a historical location
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?
a rainbow

clear skies

sunbeams

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

Political philosophy

Nature

His fellow poets
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________
he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism

he never attended class

he cheated on his essays

he refused to respect professors
17 Shelley was a great admirer of ______, a philosopher who was also Mary Shelley's father
Thomas Hobbes

William Wordsworth

William Godwin

Thomas More
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______
France

England

Spain

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

Pathetic Fallacy

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration
20 Which best characterizes the relationships described in "The Cloud"?
Competitive

Loving

Non-hierarchical

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

The stars

The sun

Mountains
22 Which of the following did Shelley NOT advocate for?
Republicanism

Vegetarianism

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 maiden

An old woman

A nun

A baby
25 How many stanzas does this poem contain?
nine

six

two

four

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