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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 8 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
2. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?
3. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
4. What part of the statue is still standing when the traveler sees it?
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"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What claims does the poem make about the statue's sculptor?
2. Identify the three voices heard in "Ozymandias."
3. How does the poem's setting support its main point?
4. What poetic techniques create impact in the line, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies" (line 4)?
5. Briefly summarize the action of the poem.
6. Explain the irony of the poem's ending.
7. How does the epithet that Ozymandias gives himself help the reader understand the intentions behind his quote?
8. Describe the poem's form.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you advance and defend an argument about why "Ozymandias" is more revered by critics than Smith's poem "On A Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below." Show how Shelley uses poetic technique to create a superior poem on the same subject as Smith's poem. Support your ideas with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from both poems.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you explicate the poem's rhyme scheme and discuss the effects created by this rhyme scheme. How does rhyme link or emphasize ideas and affect the poem's flow, pace, and tone? Use both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poem to support your claims.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about meter in "Ozymandias." Be sure to discuss both Shelley's use of iambic pentameter and his departures from this meter. Offer insight into the effect of these departures, using correct literary terminology for types of metrical feet as you discuss the form these departures take. Use both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poem to support your claims.
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