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

2. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?
(a) Future civilizations.
(b) His subjects.
(c) Other kings.
(d) His army.

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

4. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
(a) The sculptor's.
(b) Ozymandias's subjects.
(c) Ozymandias's.
(d) Rival kings.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?

3. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare/ The lone and level sands stretch far away”?

4. What technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?

5. What is the antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

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