View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "Ozymandias" lines 1-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?
(a) To convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.
(b) To draw the reader's attention to the alliteration in these lines.
(c) To draw the reader's attention to the consonant rhyme.
(d) To stress that these are one and the same thing.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?

5. Which lines contain caesuras?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 229 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample