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

2. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?
(a) To draw the reader's attention to the consonant rhyme.
(b) To draw the reader's attention to the alliteration in these lines.
(c) To stress that these are one and the same thing.
(d) To convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.

3. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?
(a) Anxiety and suspicion.
(b) Confidence and ambition.
(c) Awe and fear.
(d) Reverence and respect.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Whose "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

3. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

4. What technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?

5. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?

(see the answer key)

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