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

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

3. Which is the best description of the statue's expression?
(a) Impassive and distant.
(b) Cold and contemptuous.
(c) Startled and bewildered.
(d) Passionate and angry.

4. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Consonance.
(c) Personification.
(d) Euphemism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

2. What part of the statue's face does the traveler describe?

3. 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"?

4. What is the meter of the poem's first two lines?

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

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