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1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?

Metaphor

Personification

Alliteration

Pathetic Fallacy
2 Shelley famously admonished which first-generation Romantic poet for his conservative ideals?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Blake

William Wordsworth

John Keats
3 Which is an example of simile?

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

"I change, but I cannot die"

"I am the daughter of Earth and Water"

"Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof"
4 The cloud is "the daughter of ______ and ______"

Sky and Water

Earth and Water

Water and Wind

Earth and Sky
5 The Cloud interacts with all but

the Moon

Lightning

the Sunrise

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

change

trip

fall

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

sanguine

rosy

sallow

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

trochaic

iambic

anapestic

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

an eagle

a tiger

a dove

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

Nature

Power

Rebirth

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

his epic poems

his radical political beliefs

his admiration for classic poetry

his love for Mary Shelley
12 A cenotaph is ______

a sign marking a historical location

a statue

an empty tomb or monument

a sarcophagus
13 "Like a child from the womb, like a _______ from the tomb"

skeleton

spirit

body

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

clear skies

sunbeams

a rainbow

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

Political philosophy

Nature

His fellow poets

Dreams
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________

he refused to respect professors

he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism

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

William Godwin

William Wordsworth

Thomas More

Thomas Hobbes
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______

France

England

Italy

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

Pathetic Fallacy

Anaphora

Alliteration

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

Loving

Distant

Competitive

Non-hierarchical
21 Which of the following does the cloud describe as a "pilot"?

Lightning

The sun

The stars

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

Women's Suffrage

Republicanism

Atheism

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?

An old woman

A nun

A maiden

A baby
25 How many stanzas does this poem contain?

nine

six

four

two

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