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DAMNATION..

by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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

Q01of 10

What structural form does Shelley use throughout most of 'DAMNATION.'?

Q02of 10

In stanza 2, the Devil sends Peter's new book to the reviews accompanied by a five-pound note. What does this action primarily satirize?

Q03of 10

The opening allusion to Job's curse — 'O that mine enemy had written / A book!' — functions chiefly to:

Q04of 10

In stanza 11, the narrator says Peter 'bought oblivion or renown / From God's own voice in a review.' The phrase 'God's own voice' is best read as:

Q05of 10

What is the primary purpose of the Kant episode (stanzas 13–17) in the poem's narrative?

Q06of 10

By stanza 22, Peter has become someone who is 'no Whig, he was no Tory; / No Deist and no Christian.' This spiritual emptiness is best described as:

Q07of 10

In stanzas 27–29, Peter addresses his own soul and proposes using his dying Country's shroud as a bed-sheet for his wife. The dominant tone here is:

Q08of 10

The image in stanza 31 — Peter's verses as 'ghosts of what they were, / Shaking dim grave-clothes in the wind' — is an example of which poetic technique?

Q09of 10

According to stanza 33, the reviews that had heaped abuse on Peter while he 'wrote for freedom' begin to praise him once they detect 'the folly which soothes tyranny' in his work. What does this reversal reveal?

Q10of 10

In stanzas 36–38, Peter composes odes to the Devil calling for 'Carnage and Slaughter' at Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, and Chester. The reference to Manchester most likely alludes to:

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