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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. Whose "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) The traveler's.
(b) The sculptor's.
(c) Ozymandias's.
(d) The speaker's.

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

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

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

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

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's quote imply should be standing around the statue?

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

4. Which lines contain caesuras?

5. What part of the statue's face does the traveler describe?

(see the answer key)

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