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

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

3. Whose "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) The speaker's.
(b) The sculptor's.
(c) The traveler's.
(d) Ozymandias's.

4. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?
(a) William Blake.
(b) William Wordsworth.
(c) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(d) Lord Byron.

5. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?
(a) The graves of enemy kings.
(b) Gold and treasure.
(c) Monuments and buildings.
(d) Military weaponry.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

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

3. What is the meter of the poem's first two lines?

4. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?

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

(see the answer key)

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