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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) Parallelism.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Chiasmus.

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

3. What title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?
(a) Egypt's King.
(b) All-Powerful King.
(c) Fearsome King.
(d) King of Kings.

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

5. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?
(a) Monuments and buildings.
(b) Gold and treasure.
(c) Military weaponry.
(d) The graves of enemy kings.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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

3. Which lines contain caesuras?

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. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?

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