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A POEM IN TWELVE CANTOS..

by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Ten questions on craft, meaning, and form. Untimed. Answer every question to submit.

Q01of 10

According to the Author's Preface, what is the primary structural exception to the poem's overall narrative mode?

Q02of 10

Shelley adopted the Spenserian stanza for this poem primarily because of which quality?

Q03of 10

In the Preface, Shelley identifies 'gloom and misanthropy' as characteristics of his age. What does he trace as their root cause?

Q04of 10

Which of the following best describes the central thematic argument of *The Revolt of Islam* as outlined in the Preface?

Q05of 10

The epigraph to the poem is drawn from Pindar's Pythian Odes. What does the use of a Pindaric epigraph most likely signal about Shelley's literary intentions?

Q06of 10

Shelley compares the recovery of public hope after the French Revolution's excesses to which image?

Q07of 10

In the Preface, Shelley explicitly states that his poem aims to 'awaken the feelings' rather than persuade through argument. Which term best describes this rhetorical and aesthetic strategy?

Q08of 10

Which historical period and literary figures does Shelley invoke to argue that all writers are shaped by a shared 'common influence' of their age?

Q09of 10

What does Shelley identify as the singular governing moral law celebrated throughout the poem?

Q10of 10

Shelley acknowledges a technical flaw left inadvertently in one stanza of the poem. What is this flaw?

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