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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) Assonance and alliteration.
(c) Synechdoche and metonymy.
(d) Sibilance and synechdoche.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

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

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

4. Whose "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

5. What title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?

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