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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 technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?
2. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?
3. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?
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 title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?
Short Essay Questions
1. What claims does the poem make about the statue's sculptor?
2. Briefly summarize the action of the poem.
3. Describe the poem's form.
4. Explain the irony of the poem's ending.
5. Identify the three voices heard in "Ozymandias."
6. How does the epithet that Ozymandias gives himself help the reader understand the intentions behind his quote?
7. What poetic techniques create impact in the line, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies" (line 4)?
8. How does the poem's setting support its main point?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Read one of Shelley's more obviously political poems: either "The Masque of Anarchy" or "England in 1819" (both are available online). Then, write an essay comparing and contrasting his approach to political subject matter in the poem you chose and "Ozymandias." Use textual evidence from both works as support for your ideas; cite all sources in MLA format.
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
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.
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