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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. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?
(a) Metonymy and assonance.
(b) Sibilance and synechdoche.
(c) Synechdoche and metonymy.
(d) Assonance and alliteration.

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

3. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?
(a) Anxiety and suspicion.
(b) Awe and fear.
(c) Confidence and ambition.
(d) Reverence and respect.

4. Which lines contain caesuras?
(a) Lines 5 and 6.
(b) Lines 8 and 9.
(c) Lines 11 and 12.
(d) Lines 2 and 3.

5. 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) Asyndeton.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Alliteration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?

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

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

4. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

5. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

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