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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) Personification.
(b) Consonance.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Euphemism.

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

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

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

5. 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 history of a king.
(c) Physical characteristics.
(d) The sculptor's talent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which lines contain caesuras?

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. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?

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