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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 is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?
(a) To stress that these are one and the same thing.
(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 convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.

2. What technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Imagery.

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

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

5. What is the meter of the poem's first two lines?
(a) Two iambs and two trochees.
(b) Four iambs and a trochee.
(c) Iambic pentameter.
(d) Iambic tetrameter.

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

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”?

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

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