Percy's Life
Bonus
Ode to the West Wind
Literary devices
Ozymandias
100
In what year did Percy Bysshe Shelley die?
1822
100
What did Shelley's second wife, Mary, write?
Frankenstein
100
What does the West Wind symbolize in Ode to The West Wind?
powerful force that could deliver him from his inability to make himself heard
100
What literary device is "ode wild west wind"?
alliteration
100
When was Ozymandias published?
1818
200
What is the name of Shelley's first wife?
Harriet Westbrook
200
What was the organ that would not burn when he was cremated?
the heart<3
200
What are the themes of ode to the west?
nature,mortality,communtication and transformation
200
What literary device is "Loose clouds like Earth's decaying leaves are shed"?
simile
200
How many speakers are in this poem?
three
300
What was Shelley's consequence for writing The Necessity of Atheism?
Getting expelled from Oxford
300
What is the type of world that Shelley tried to create with his poems?
a more beautiful and true world.
300
What season is associated with the west wind?
autumn
300
What is "Destroyer and Preserver"?
oxymoron
300
What is the form of this poem?
a sonnet
400
What two things did Percy have in his pockets when he died?
A copy of Sophocles and a poem by Keats
400
Where did Harriet drown herself?
in a pond in London's Hyde Park
400
What is the rhyme scheme?
terza rima
400
What is "O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being"?
apostrophe
400
Who is Ozymandias?
an Egyptian ruler
500
What is the full date of his birth?
August 4th, 1792
500
What was the name of the sailboat that sunk and killed Percy?
Ariel
500
What two writing styles are present in this poem?
Italian rhyme scheme and a famous English style of sonnet writing.
500
What is "and suddenly grow grey with fear"?
hyperbole
500
What is the theme?
arrogance doesn't stand the test of time
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