The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Pathetic Fallacy

Personification

Metaphor

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

John Keats

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Wordsworth
3 Which is an example of simile?
"And white the green plains asunder/And then again I dissolve it in rain"

"I am the daughter of Earth and Water"

"Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof"

"I change, but I cannot die"
4 The cloud is "the daughter of ______ and ______"
Water and Wind

Earth and Water

Earth and Sky

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

Lightning

the Moon

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

change

trip

fall
7 "The _______ Sunrise, with his meteor eyes"
red

sanguine

rosy

sallow
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?
a bear

a tiger

a dove

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

Power

Death

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

his love for Mary Shelley

his admiration for classic poetry

his epic poems
12 A cenotaph is ______
a sarcophagus

an empty tomb or monument

a statue

a sign marking a historical location
13 "Like a child from the womb, like a _______ from the tomb"
ghost

skeleton

spirit

body
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?
Dreams

His fellow poets

Political philosophy

Nature
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________
he cheated on his essays

he refused to respect professors

he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism

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

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas More

William Godwin
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______
France

Italy

England

Spain
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"?
Distant

Loving

Competitive

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

Mountains

The sun

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

Women's Suffrage

Atheism

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

arches and dives

grumbles and groans

struggles and howls
24 The moon is personified as which of the following?
An old woman

A nun

A baby

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

six

nine

four

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