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

2. What is the meter of the poem's first two lines?
(a) Four iambs and a trochee.
(b) Iambic pentameter.
(c) Two iambs and two trochees.
(d) Iambic tetrameter.

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) The history of a king.
(c) Personality and emotion.
(d) The sculptor's talent.

4. What part of the statue's face does the traveler describe?
(a) The brow.
(b) The jaw.
(c) The eyes.
(d) The mouth.

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 draw the reader's attention to the consonant rhyme.
(c) To convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.
(d) To stress that these are one and the same thing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?

2. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

3. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

4. Whose "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

5. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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