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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. Which lines contain caesuras?
(a) Lines 8 and 9.
(b) Lines 11 and 12.
(c) Lines 2 and 3.
(d) Lines 5 and 6.

2. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?
(a) To draw the reader's attention to the alliteration in these lines.
(b) To draw the reader's attention to the consonant rhyme.
(c) To convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.
(d) To stress that these are one and the same thing.

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

4. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?
(a) Sonnet.
(b) Rondeau.
(c) Ballade.
(d) Villanelle.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of the statue's face does the traveler describe?

2. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

3. What title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?

4. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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

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