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Storgy

Quiz — Storgy

INFERNO 33, 22-75..

by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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

Q01of 10

Who is the speaker narrating the events in this poem?

Q02of 10

What structural feature distinguishes this poem's form?

Q03of 10

In the dream described early in the poem, the wolf and wolf-cubs being hunted most likely represent which figures allegorically?

Q04of 10

The phrase 'turned within to stone' most directly conveys which aspect of the speaker's emotional state?

Q05of 10

What is the primary thematic concern of the concluding line, 'Famine of grief can get the mastery'?

Q06of 10

When young Anselm asks, 'What ails thee, father? Why look so at thine?', what technique is Shelley primarily employing?

Q07of 10

The imagery of 'three faces, each the reflex of my own' seen in the faint light serves chiefly to underscore which idea?

Q08of 10

Historically, the Gualandi, Sismondi, and Lanfranchi named in the poem are best understood as what type of allusion?

Q09of 10

The tone of Ugolino's address to the listener—'Right cruel art thou, if thou dost not weep'—is best described as which of the following?

Q10of 10

What comprehension detail explains why the children first believe their father is gnawing his own hands from hunger?

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