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

2. What part of the statue is still standing when the traveler sees it?
(a) The legs and torso.
(b) The torso and head.
(c) Just the head.
(d) Just the legs.

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

4. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?
(a) William Wordsworth.
(b) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) William Blake.

5. What is the antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
(a) Sculptor.
(b) Passions.
(c) Lifeless things.
(d) Visage.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?

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

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

5. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?

(see the answer key)

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