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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's face does the traveler describe?
(a) The brow.
(b) The mouth.
(c) The jaw.
(d) The eyes.

2. 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.

3. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
(a) Ozymandias's subjects.
(b) The sculptor's.
(c) Rival kings.
(d) Ozymandias's.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

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

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

5. What part of the statue is still standing when the traveler sees it?

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