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"Ozymandias"
"To a Skylark"
Rhyme/Poetry
Miscellaneous
100
In what year was Shelley born?
What is 1792
100
Ozymandias was the Greek name for which historical figure?
What is Ramses II
100
What's a skylark?
What is a bird
100
Iambic Pentameter contains how many iambs?
What is 5
100
AKA Ramses II
What is Ramses the Great
200
The name of the boat that was engulfed in the Gulf of Spezzia, drowning Shelley in 1822
What is Don Juan
200
What is the most famous couplet of this poem?
What is “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my Works, ye Mighty and despair!”
200
Another name for a glowworm.
What is Firefly
200
"Ozymandias" is a combination of which sonnets?
What is Petrarchan and Shakespearean
200
As a romantic poet, Shelley emphasizes the incredible power of nature in comparison to what?
What is human nature
300
The year in which Shelley created many poems such as "The Mask of Anarchy" or "To a Skylark"
What is 1820
300
What was Ramses II known for?
What is cruel/ruthless leadership, but also benevolence in providing food for his empire
300
What is it about the skylark that catches the speaker's attention?
What is its beautiful song
300
The reverse of an iamb
What is Trochee
300
"Nothing lasts forever, no matter what we do here on Earth" is a central theme of which poem?
What is "Ozymandias"
400
The name of Shelly's group of friends that included Lord Byron, Edward Trelawney and Edward & Jane Williams when he lived in Italy.
What is the Pisan Circle
400
Why does the speaker give a secondary account from a random traveller?
What is distance/credibility
400
What season does the word "vernal" refer to (56)?
What is Spring
400
True/False. "Ozymandias" ends with a concluding couplet (FF)
False. (ends with EF)
400
What does "visage" mean?
What is face
500
Name one characteristic of Shelley's poetry that proves him to be a worthy poet without parallel in the history of English literature.
metrical and stanzaic resources of verse, astounding range of voice or command of tone/language
500
The focus goes from the speaker to the traveller to the sculptor to Ozymandias to which final agent?
What is nothing
500
Fill in the missing word in this line from the poem: "Chorus __________ "
What is Hymenenal
500
Why does trochaic pentameter sound unusual?
Because we tend to speak in iambs. The reverse of stressed syllables followed by unstressed syllables disrupts the flow of natural speech.
500
True/False: Shelley was a downright platonic idealist.
False. He held a “qualified idealism” in which he partly believed that ideas envisioned by imagination surpass experience.