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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "Ozymandias" lines 1-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?
(a) Swampland.
(b) Mountains.
(c) Savannah.
(d) Desert.

2. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare/ The lone and level sands stretch far away”?
(a) Asyndeton.
(b) Antithesis.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

3. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

4. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?
(a) Synechdoche and metonymy.
(b) Sibilance and synechdoche.
(c) Assonance and alliteration.
(d) Metonymy and assonance.

5. What is the antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
(a) Passions.
(b) Lifeless things.
(c) Sculptor.
(d) Visage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?

2. What part of the statue is still standing when the traveler sees it?

3. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

4. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

5. Which lines contain caesuras?

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