The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Alliteration

Metaphor

Pathetic Fallacy

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"

"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"
4 The cloud is "the daughter of ______ and ______"
Sky and Water

Water and Wind

Earth and Water

Earth and Sky
5 The Cloud interacts with all but
Lightning

the mountains

the Sunrise

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

fall

change

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

sanguine

sallow

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

spondaic

anapestic

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

a bear

a dove

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

Rebirth

Nature

Power
11 Of all the Romantic poets, Shelley was most known for _______
his epic poems

his love for Mary Shelley

his admiration for classic poetry

his radical political beliefs
12 A cenotaph is ______
an empty tomb or monument

a sarcophagus

a sign marking a historical location

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

body

spirit

skeleton
14 As the Cloud "marches" across the sky, what follows in its wake?
a rainbow

sunbeams

clear skies

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 never attended class

he cheated on his essays
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 _______
Italy

England

France

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

Onomatopoeia

Anaphora

Pathetic Fallacy
20 Which best characterizes the relationships described in "The Cloud"?
Non-hierarchical

Loving

Competitive

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

Mountains

Lightning

The stars
22 Which of the following did Shelley NOT advocate for?
Women's Suffrage

Atheism

Vegetarianism

Republicanism
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?
A nun

An old woman

A maiden

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

four

two

six

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