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Ozymandias

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Poetry Quiz - reading comprehension

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1
Which words and phrases from the poem best contribute to a sense of setting?
legs of stone, cold command, and despair
boundless, bare and lone and level sands
shattered, decay, and wreck.
half sunk, lifeless things, and colossal.
2
Based on information in the poem, who was Ozymandias?
a traveler
a king
a writer
a sculptor
3
What is the poem mostly about?
a king is found dead in the bare desert by a traveler
A powerful king poses for a sculptor to make a stone statue.
A traveler journeys through antique lands and faraway desert
A traveler finds a shattered sculpture of a king in a desert
4
The word "survive" as used in line 7 most nearly means
live
display
coexist
outlast
5
In line 8, "The heart that fed" refers to
Ozymandias
the sculptor
the traveler
the speaker
6
The line that best supports that the sculptor did not think highly of Ozymandias.
"its sculptor well those passions read... mocked them."(6-8)
"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone...visage lies." (2-4)
"Round the decay...stretch far away." (lines 12-14)
"And on the pedestal...Kings" (9-10)
7
Based on what we know of Ozymandias, what kind of a king was he probably?
unhappy and lonely
fair, just and well-loved
powerful and oppressive
weak and ineffective
8
What is the central idea of the poem?
Great kings will be remembered forever
Traveling is educational
Great conquests will be forgotten over time.
Art is fruitless
9
What was Ozymandias's kingdom probably like when the sculpture was made, according to the poem?
small
bare
powerful
happy
10
"boundless and bare" in line 13 is an example of
onomatopoeia
simile
alliteration
rhyme scheme