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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 part of the statue is still standing when the traveler sees it?
(a) The legs and torso.
(b) Just the head.
(c) Just the legs.
(d) The torso and head.

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

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

4. Whose "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) The speaker's.
(b) The sculptor's.
(c) Ozymandias's.
(d) The traveler's.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which lines contain caesuras?

3. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

4. What is the rhyme scheme of "Ozymandias"?

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

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