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SUMMER AND WINTER..

by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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

Q01of 10

What is the predominant structural principle organizing 'Summer and Winter' as a whole?

Q02of 10

In lines 5–6, the 'stainless sky' that 'Opens beyond them like eternity' is an example of which poetic technique?

Q03of 10

Which of the following best describes the tone of the poem's final line, 'Alas, then, for the homeless beggar old!'?

Q04of 10

What is the rhyme scheme of 'Summer and Winter'?

Q05of 10

Lines 7–10 list weeds, the river, corn-fields, reeds, willow leaves, and large trees. What rhetorical device is most prominent in this catalogue?

Q06of 10

How does Shelley characterize the comfortable men in winter (lines 16–17)?

Q07of 10

The image of fish lying 'Stiffened in the translucent ice' primarily serves which thematic purpose?

Q08of 10

Who can best be identified as the speaker of this poem?

Q09of 10

The phrase 'floating mountains of the silver clouds' in line 4 relies chiefly on which figure of speech?

Q10of 10

What happens in lines 13–15 to 'the mud and slime of the warm lakes'?

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