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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 eyes.
(d) The jaw.

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

3. 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”?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Antithesis.

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"?
(a) Physical characteristics.
(b) Personality and emotion.
(c) The history of a king.
(d) The sculptor's talent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

2. What title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?

3. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?

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

5. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

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