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

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

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

4. Which is the best description of the statue's expression?
(a) Startled and bewildered.
(b) Impassive and distant.
(c) Passionate and angry.
(d) Cold and contemptuous.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?

4. 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"?

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

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