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

2. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?
(a) Anxiety and suspicion.
(b) Reverence and respect.
(c) Confidence and ambition.
(d) Awe and fear.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?

2. 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"?

3. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

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

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

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