WorksheetsOzymandias
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 4mins
Based on the information in the poem, who was Ozymandias?
a writer
a king
a sculptor
a traveler
Which words and phrases from the poem best contribute to a sense of setting?
boundless, bare, and lone and level sands
shattered, decay, and wreck
half sunk, lifeless things, and colossal
legs of stone, cold command, and despair
The person who created the sculpture did not think highly of Ozymandias.
What evidence from the text supports this conclusion?
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Stand in the desert...Near them, on the sand, / Half sunk, a shattered visage lies
Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away.
And on the pedestal these words appear: / 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings
its sculptor well those passions read / Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, / The hand that mocked them
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
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.
Read these lines from the poem:
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed
In these lines, what does the word “survive” most nearly mean?
outlast
coexist
live
display
Read these lines from the poem:
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
Based on the poem as a whole, whom does “the heart that fed” refer to?
the traveler
the sculptor
the speaker
Ozymandias
What words appear on the pedestal of the sculpture?
