The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Alliteration

Pathetic Fallacy

Metaphor

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 ______"
Sky and Water

Earth and Water

Earth and Sky

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

the Sunrise

Lightning

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

sleep

fall

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

sallow

rosy

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

iambic

anapestic

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

an eagle

a dove

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

Death

Power

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

his epic poems

his admiration for classic poetry

his love for Mary Shelley
12 A cenotaph is ______
an empty tomb or monument

a statue

a sign marking a historical location

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

spirit

skeleton

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

a rainbow

clear skies

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

Political philosophy

Dreams

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

he never attended class

he refused to respect professors

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 Wordsworth

Thomas More

William Godwin
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______
England

France

Spain

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

Onomatopoeia

Anaphora

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

Non-hierarchical

Competitive

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

The sun

Lightning

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

Republicanism

Vegetarianism

Women's Suffrage
23 "In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It __ and __ at fits;"
grumbles and groans

arches and dives

frolics and hops

struggles and howls
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?
two

nine

four

six

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