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Choose the best answer for each of the following questions. These will relate to Shelley's life and the two poems by Shelley that you read in the Learn section.
1.) What is the name of Shelley's first wife?
Answer: Harriet
2.) What do the words on the pedestal of Ozymandius mean?
Answer: He thought too much of himself.
3.) What is the rhyme scheme of the poem "To a Skylark"?
Answer: ababb
4.) What is a simile?
Answer: a comparison between two things using "like" or "as"
5.) Why is "To a Skylark" a Romantic poem?
Answer: It reflects the beauty in nature.
6.) Line 10 says, "And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest." What literary device is Shelley using here?
Answer: alliteration
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