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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 antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
(a) Passions.
(b) Visage.
(c) Lifeless things.
(d) Sculptor.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Which is the best description of the statue's expression?

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