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DEDICATION, TO LEIGH HUNT, ESQ..

by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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

Q01of 10

Shelley describes his previous published writings primarily as what?

Q02of 10

What distinguishes the drama Shelley is dedicating from his earlier works?

Q03of 10

The phrase 'I lay aside the presumptuous attitude of an instructor' reveals what about Shelley's tone toward this work?

Q04of 10

What literary defects does Shelley acknowledge in his earlier publications?

Q05of 10

When Shelley writes that he 'had already been fortunate in friendships' before Hunt, what rhetorical effect does this create?

Q06of 10

The closing sentence—'let us, comforting each other in our task, live and die'—is best described as what kind of appeal?

Q07of 10

Which virtue does Shelley NOT explicitly attribute to Leigh Hunt in the central paragraph of praise?

Q08of 10

The dedication is written 'from a distant country, and after an absence whose months have seemed years.' What does this phrasing chiefly convey?

Q09of 10

Shelley states he would have dedicated the work to someone 'more highly endowed' than Hunt if such a person existed. What is the primary function of this conditional statement?

Q10of 10

The phrase 'patient and irreconcilable enmity with domestic and political tyranny' describes which aspect of Hunt's character?

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