GCSE English Literature: Power and Conflict - AQA

Question 1

Who is the author of ‘Ozymandias’?

Answer 1

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Question 2

Can you recite ‘Ozymandias’?

Answer 2

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: ‘Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock’d them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Question 3

What was ‘Ozymandias’ also called?

Answer 3

Ozymandias was another name for Ramesses II, a ruler of Ancient Egypt.

Question 4

What does ‘antique’ mean?

Answer 4

Ancient

Question 5

What does ‘trunkless’ mean?

Answer 5

Without a torso

Question 6

What is a ‘visage’?

Answer 6

Face

Question 7

What is a ‘pedestal’?

Answer 7

Base of a statue

Question 8

What does ‘colossal’ mean?

Answer 8

Very large