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

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

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

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

5. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?
(a) Other kings.
(b) His army.
(c) His subjects.
(d) Future civilizations.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the meter of the poem's first two lines?

3. What is the antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

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

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

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