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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 technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Personification.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Consonance.

2. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?
(a) "Foreign."
(b) "Far-off."
(c) "Mystic."
(d) "Antique."

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

4. What is the meter of the poem's first two lines?
(a) Four iambs and a trochee.
(b) Iambic pentameter.
(c) Two iambs and two trochees.
(d) Iambic tetrameter.

5. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?
(a) Synechdoche and metonymy.
(b) Metonymy and assonance.
(c) Sibilance and synechdoche.
(d) Assonance and alliteration.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

2. What is the rhyme scheme of "Ozymandias"?

3. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?

4. What part of the statue is still standing when the traveler sees it?

5. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

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