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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) Paradox.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Chiasmus.

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

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

4. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

5. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
(a) Ozymandias's subjects.
(b) The sculptor's.
(c) Rival kings.
(d) Ozymandias's.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?

3. 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”?

4. What is the antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

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

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