Percy B. Shelley & 'Ode to the West Wind'

Percy's Life

100

In what year did Percy Bysshe Shelley die?

1822

200

What is the name of Shelley's first wife?

Harriet Westbrook

300

In which part of Italy did Percy Shelley die?

In the Gulf of La Spezia / In the Ligurian sea

400

What is the full date of his birth?

4^th August 1792 / August 4^th 1792

500

What item was found in his pocket when he died?

A volume of Keats's poetry (Lamia) / A volume of plays by Sophocles

Bonus (Life)

100

What did Shelley's second wife, Mary, write?

Frankenstein

200

What was the name of the college that he attended at Oxford?

University College

300

What was the organ that did not burn when he was cremated?

His heart

400

How did his first wife commit suicide?

She drowned herself (in the Serpentine/in a lake)

500

What Latin phrase is engraved on his gravestone?

Cor Cordium (Heart of hearts)

Ode to the West Wind

100

What season is associated with the west wind?

Autumn

200

What is its verse form called?

Terza rima

300

In which month and in which year was the poem composed?

October 1819

400

Complete the following lines from the poem:
"Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic _____ ,

Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,

Who chariotest to their dark wintry ______ "

red, bed

500

Quote the poem’s concluding rhetorical question

"O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"

Literary devices

100

What literary device is found in the phrase "wild west wind"?

Alliteration

200

What literary device is "Loose clouds like Earth's decaying leaves are shed"?

simile

300

What is "Destroyer and Preserver"?

oxymoron

400

Complete the structure "ABA, BCB, CDC..." with the fourth tercet and the rhyming couplet

DED EE

500

What literary devices are simultaneously used in this line: "‘Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is [...]"

metaphor & simile