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

2. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?
(a) To draw the reader's attention to the consonant rhyme.
(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 alliteration in these lines.

3. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?
(a) A weapon.
(b) A piece of armor.
(c) An eye.
(d) A face.

4. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Personification.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Consonance.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which lines contain caesuras?

3. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?

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

5. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?

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