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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 does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?
2. What is the meter of the poem's first two lines?
3. What title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?
4. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?
5. Which lines contain caesuras?
Short Essay Questions
1. Identify the three voices heard in "Ozymandias."
2. How does the epithet that Ozymandias gives himself help the reader understand the intentions behind his quote?
3. What poetic techniques create impact in the line, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies" (line 4)?
4. Briefly summarize the action of the poem.
5. What claims does the poem make about the statue's sculptor?
6. Describe the poem's form.
7. How does the poem's setting support its main point?
8. Explain the irony of the poem's ending.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The passage from Ancient Greek historian Diodorus Siculus that both Shelley and Smith used as the basis for their poems is this:
One of these, made in a sitting posture, is the greatest in all Egypt, the measure of his foot exceeding seven cubitts. This piece is not only commendable for its greatness, but admirable for its cut and workmanship, and the excellency of the stone. In so great a work there is not to be discerned the least flaw, or any other blemish.
Upon it there is this inscription: – 'I am Osymandyas, king of kings; if any would know how great I am, and where I lie, let him excel me in any of my works.’ (The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian, translated by George Booth, page 53).
Write an essay that considers how Shelley transformed this source material into the action of "Ozymandias." What did he keep? What did he cut? What did he add or reshape? How do these choices reveal Shelley's thematic intentions? Support your claims with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from both "Ozymandias" and the passage by Diodorus Siculus.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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.
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