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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 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) Alliteration.
(b) Antithesis.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

2. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?
(a) An eye.
(b) A piece of armor.
(c) A weapon.
(d) A face.

3. In lines 6 and 7, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read/ Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things," what it is that is "stamped," on the "lifeless things"?
(a) Physical characteristics.
(b) Personality and emotion.
(c) The sculptor's talent.
(d) The history of a king.

4. What technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Imagery.

5. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?
(a) To draw the reader's attention to the alliteration in these lines.
(b) To convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.
(c) To draw the reader's attention to the consonant rhyme.
(d) To stress that these are one and the same thing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the rhyme scheme of "Ozymandias"?

3. What is the antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

4. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

5. Which is the best description of the statue's expression?

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