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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 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 convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.
(d) To stress that these are one and the same thing.

2. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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) Antithesis.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Alliteration.

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

5. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?
(a) An eye.
(b) A face.
(c) A weapon.
(d) A piece of armor.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?

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