View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?
(a) "Far-off."
(b) "Foreign."
(c) "Antique."
(d) "Mystic."

4. What is the rhyme scheme of "Ozymandias"?
(a) ABAB BCBC CDCD EF.
(b) ABAB ACDC EDEF EF.
(c) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
(d) ABAB ACAC ADAD EE.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

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

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

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

5. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 217 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample