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Quiz — Storgy

Amongst the late Mr. Fredk. Locker-Lampson’s collections at.

by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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

Q01of 10

The opening metaphor of 'green isle' in 'the deep wide sea of Misery' functions primarily as:

Q02of 10

The image of 'sapless leaflets now / Frozen upon December's bough' (lines 42–44) most directly describes:

Q03of 10

In the description of the rooks over the Euganean Hills (lines 70–88), Shelley uses which primary structural technique?

Q04of 10

Shelley addresses Venice as 'Ocean's child, and then his queen' (line 116). What shift in Venice's condition does the subsequent stanza (lines 115–133) describe?

Q05of 10

The phrase 'tempest-cleaving Swan / Of the songs of Albion' (lines 174–175) refers to:

Q06of 10

Shelley compares the poet celebrated in Venice to Homer near Scamander, Shakespeare filling Avon with light, and Petrarch's 'quenchless lamp.' This sequence of allusions is best described as:

Q07of 10

Which tone is most dominant in the Padua sections (lines 214–268)?

Q08of 10

In the 'Norway woodman' simile (lines 269–283), the spark that is stamped out but ignites a vast forest represents:

Q09of 10

The noon passage (lines 285–318) shifts the poem's dominant mode to:

Q10of 10

According to the poem's closing stanzas (lines 335–373), what is the ultimate fate Shelley imagines for the 'polluting multitude' who might enter the visionary paradise?

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