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Storgy

Quiz — Storgy

AN ODE, WRITTEN OCTOBER, 1819,.

by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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

Q01of 10

Which of the following best describes the overall form of this poem?

Q02of 10

What is the primary purpose of the opening imperatives—'Arise, arise, arise!' and 'Awaken, awaken, awaken!'—at the start of successive stanzas?

Q03of 10

In lines 8–9, 'The slave and the tyrant are twin-born foes,' Shelley's central argument is that:

Q04of 10

What does the imagery of 'wounds like eyes / To weep for the dead' (lines 3–4) primarily achieve?

Q05of 10

The poem's speaker deliberately excludes the pansy from the victory garlands (lines 33–35) because:

Q06of 10

Which literary technique is most prominently illustrated by 'Green strength, azure hope, and eternity' (line 33)?

Q07of 10

The tone of the fourth stanza ('Glory, glory, glory, / To those who have greatly suffered') is best characterized as:

Q08of 10

'Freedom is riding to conquest by: / Though the slaves that fan her / Be Famine and Toil' (lines 16–18) employs which rhetorical device?

Q09of 10

To what does Shelley allude when he instructs the people to crown themselves with 'violet, ivy, and pine' (line 30)?

Q10of 10

According to the poem, what distinguishes the Spanish people's potential victory from the victories of ordinary conquerors (lines 25–28)?

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