The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?

Personification

Pathetic Fallacy

Metaphor

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

William Blake

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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"

"Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof"

"I change, but I cannot die"

"I am the daughter of Earth and Water"
4 The cloud is "the daughter of ______ and ______"

Earth and Water

Water and Wind

Sky and Water

Earth and Sky
5 The Cloud interacts with all but

Lightning

the Sunrise

the Moon

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

fall

sleep

trip

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

rosy

red

sanguine

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?

an eagle

a dove

a bear

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

Power

Death

Nature

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

his love for Mary Shelley

his admiration for classic poetry

his epic poems

his radical political beliefs
12 A cenotaph is ______

a sign marking a historical location

a sarcophagus

an empty tomb or monument

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

spirit

skeleton

ghost

body
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

Dreams

His fellow poets
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________

he never attended class

he refused to respect professors

he cheated on his essays

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

William Wordsworth

Thomas Hobbes

William Godwin

Thomas More
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

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

Pathetic Fallacy

Anaphora
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"?

The sun

Lightning

The stars

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;"

arches and dives

grumbles and groans

frolics and hops

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

A maiden

A nun

An old woman

A baby
25 How many stanzas does this poem contain?

two

six

four

nine

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