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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 kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?
2. 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”?
3. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?
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"?
5. What technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the poem's setting support its main point?
2. Identify the three voices heard in "Ozymandias."
3. Describe the poem's form.
4. What claims does the poem make about the statue's sculptor?
5. What poetic techniques create impact in the line, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies" (line 4)?
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. Briefly summarize the action of the poem.
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 Shelley's use of the sound devices alliteration, assonance, and consonance in "Ozymandias." How do these techniques link or emphasize ideas and impact the poem's flow, pace, and mood? Use both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poem to support your claims.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that analyzes "Ozymandias" as an artifact of English Romanticism. Explain the key characteristics of the style and subject matter of Romanticism, place Shelley within this tradition, and then show how "Ozymandias" reflects this tradition. Use both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poem to support your claims, and cite all sources in MLA format.
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