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

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

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

4. Which is the best description of the statue's expression?
(a) Impassive and distant.
(b) Startled and bewildered.
(c) Cold and contemptuous.
(d) Passionate and angry.

5. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Consonance.
(d) Euphemism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

2. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?

3. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?

4. Which lines contain caesuras?

5. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?

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