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GIACOMO ALONE..

by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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

Q01of 10

What news does Orsino bring when he finally arrives at midnight?

Q02of 10

The extended metaphor of the lamp that runs through the soliloquy primarily represents:

Q03of 10

When Giacomo says 'wind and thunder… is the loud laughter / With which Heaven mocks our weakness,' his tone has shifted to:

Q04of 10

Which formal feature of this text most clearly marks it as a verse play rather than a lyric poem?

Q05of 10

Giacomo's line 'And yet once quenched I cannot thus relume / My father's life' most directly employs which poetic technique?

Q06of 10

Orsino's argument to Giacomo in lines 53–57 is chiefly a rhetorical strategy of:

Q07of 10

The simile comparing the flame to 'a dying pulse' (lines 11–12) reinforces which central theme of the soliloquy?

Q08of 10

Olimpio and Marzio are introduced in the scene primarily as:

Q09of 10

When Giacomo imagines his son waiting in the same torment 'when my hairs are white' (line 25), Shelley is using which structural device?

Q10of 10

Giacomo's final couplet, 'And all / Forgotten: Oh, that I had never been!' most closely echoes which literary and thematic tradition?

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