Ozymandias

Question 1

“Vast and Trunkless legs of stone”

Answer 1

.Metaphor
.Symbolises political power

Question 2

“half sunk”

Answer 2

.Metaphor
.Symbolises political power

Question 3

“Shattered visage”

Answer 3

.Metaphor
.Symbolises political power

Question 4

“Sneer of cold command”

Answer 4

.alliteration/consonance
.emphasises the speakers distaste
.harsh sounds

Question 5

‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings…’

Answer 5

.Breaks iambic pentameter which shows Ozymandias’s arrogance and belief that he is above rules.
.’My name…’ shows he believes he is powerful enough for someone to hear his name and immediately know who he is.

Question 6

“colossal wreck”

Answer 6

.Juxtaposition
.emphisises the contrast between Ozymandias’s power then and now

Question 7

Irregular rhyming scheme

Answer 7

.Does not follow the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean or Petrarchan sonnet.
.Broken sonnet mimics the statue and Ozymandias’s power.
.Shelly’s way of mocking Ozymandias.

Question 8

Enjambment and ceasura

Answer 8

.Mirrors the broken nature of the statue and Ozymandias’s power.