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TWO YOUNG FAUNS ARE SITTING ON A ROCK LISTENING..

by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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

Q01of 10

What is the overall dramatic form of this passage from *Prometheus Unbound*?

Q02of 10

In Semichorus 1, what primary effect does the dense canopy of 'cedar, pine, and yew' create?

Q03of 10

The image of starlight scattering 'drops of golden light / Like lines of rain that ne'er unite' (lines 20–21) is best described as an example of which poetic technique?

Q04of 10

In Semichorus 2, the nightingales are described as 'awake through all the broad noonday' (line 25). What is the significance of this detail?

Q05of 10

What does 'Demogorgon's mighty law' (line 43) suggest about the echoes and spirit-music described in Semichorus 1's second appearance?

Q06of 10

The simile 'As inland boats are driven to Ocean / Down streams made strong with mountain-thaw' (lines 46–47) functions primarily to convey what quality of the spirit-music?

Q07of 10

What does the Second Faun's account of spirits living in lake bubbles (lines 70–81) reveal about the poem's tone in the fauns' dialogue?

Q08of 10

Who is Silenus, referenced in line 90 as 'thwart Silenus'?

Q09of 10

The closing lines of the poem mention 'Fate, and Chance, and God, and Chaos old, / And Love, and the chained Titan's woful doom' (lines 91–93). What is the most likely effect of ending on these grand themes?

Q10of 10

According to the First Faun (lines 64–68), why have the fauns never encountered the spirits despite searching?

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