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

2. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?
(a) "Foreign."
(b) "Far-off."
(c) "Mystic."
(d) "Antique."

3. What kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?
(a) Mountains.
(b) Savannah.
(c) Desert.
(d) Swampland.

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

5. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?
(a) Rondeau.
(b) Sonnet.
(c) Ballade.
(d) Villanelle.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?

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

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