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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 title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?
(a) All-Powerful King.
(b) King of Kings.
(c) Fearsome King.
(d) Egypt's King.

2. What part of the statue's face does the traveler describe?
(a) The mouth.
(b) The jaw.
(c) The eyes.
(d) The brow.

3. 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"?
(a) The sculptor's talent.
(b) Personality and emotion.
(c) Physical characteristics.
(d) The history of a king.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the rhyme scheme of "Ozymandias"?

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

4. Which lines contain caesuras?

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

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