Ozymandias

Who wrote this poem?

• Emily Bronte

• Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Mary Shelley

• Lord Byron

Who is talking in the poem?

• The traveller

• The poet

• Ozymandias

• The Pharaoh

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Where do you think the traveller was referring to?

• Egypt

• France

• Australia

• Canada

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What did the traveller see?

• Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

• One vast and trunkless leg of stone

• Two vast and trunkless legs of steel

• Two vast and truncated legs of stone

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The sculptor captured Ozymandias' expression perfectly. He looked like he was

• cruel and arrogant

• mild and shy

• kind and benevolent

• angry and upset

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Based on the information in the poem, what was Ozymandias’s kingdom probably like at the time the sculpture was created?

• powerful

• happy

• small

• bare

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What is this poem mostly about?

• A powerful king poses for a sculptor to create a statue of him out of stone.

• A traveler journeys through antique lands and faraway deserts.

• A traveler finds a vast sculpture of a king lying shattered in a bare desert.

• A king is found dead in the bare desert by a traveler passing through.

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What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things using as or like

• An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally

• Words that sound like their meaning

• A comparison between two things NOT using like or as

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An exaggerated statement is a...

• Alliteration

• Onomatopeia

• Simile

• Hyperbole

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What is a metaphor?

• A comparison that does NOT use like or as

• the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• A comparison that does use like or as

• words that sound like their meaning

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