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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?

2. Which lines contain caesuras?

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

4. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

5. What is the antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

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