ozymandias

Question 1

what is assonance

Answer 1

resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words

Question 2

what is consonance

Answer 2

a figure of speech in which the same consonant sound repeats within a group of words.

Question 3

what is caesura

Answer 3

any interruption or break that occurs in the middle of a poetic line

Question 4

what is enjambment

Answer 4

one poetic line flows into another without stopping at the end.

Question 5

example of assonance in ozymandias

Answer 5

“I met A trAveller from An Antique lAnd”

Question 6

example of consonance in ozymandias

Answer 6

“Of that coloSSal Wreck, boundleSS and bare”

Question 7

example of caesura in ozymandias

Answer 7

“whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,”-the commas

Question 8

example of enjambment in ozymandias

Answer 8

“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . .”

Question 9

key themes in ozymandias

Answer 9

-transient nature of power
-power of nature
-power of time

Question 10

symbols in ozymandias

Answer 10

-the crumbled statue
-the desert wasteland

Question 11

shelley was what type of poet

Answer 11

a romantic poet

Question 12

what can we infer from an antique land

Answer 12

antique suggests the land is forgotten creating a contrast between his past power and what became of him.he is forgotten

Question 13

what can we infer from Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Answer 13

contrast between the trunk and stone(stone represents his features and demeanour) and trunk symbolises the power of nature taking over

Question 14

what can we infer from Half sunk a shattered visage lies

Answer 14

half sunk shows how his statue is do obnoxiously big that even in the vast desert it is still only half hidden,a shattered visage shows how his dreams were killed off-no longer powerful

Question 15

what can we infer from frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command

Answer 15

frown and wrinkled lip show his expression as being very dissaproving,sneer of cold command shows how brutal and arrogant he was

Question 16

what can we infer from stamped on these lifeless things,

Answer 16

stamped-shows a marks of ownership,lifeless-connotes death and lack of vitality,things-shows how he has been reduced to mere things

Question 17

what can we infer from The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed

Answer 17

mocked-could refer to him giving orders,artist capturing his hands in an attempt at imitating,may be mocking him