Ozymandias

Question 1

Who wrote ‘Ozymandias’?

Answer 1

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Question 2

When was ‘Ozymandias’ written?

Answer 2

1818

Question 3

Who is ‘Ozymandias’ about?

Answer 3

Rameses II

Question 4

Why was Rameses II called ‘Ozymandias’?

Answer 4

name in ancient Greek sources
derived from Egyptian-language regnal name

Question 5

What was Rameses II Egyptian regnal name?

Answer 5

Usermaatre Setepenre

Question 6

What is the form of ‘Ozymandias’?

Answer 6

sonnet

Question 7

Why is the form of ‘Ozymandias’ ironic?

Answer 7

sonnet ; love/respect
no love/respect in poem

Question 8

What is the structure of ‘Ozymandias’ like?

Answer 8

framed narrative

Question 9

What type of poet was Percy Bysshe Shelley?

Answer 9

romantic poet

Question 10

What is relevant about the adjective ‘colossal’?

Answer 10

• undermines what it says on plinth ‘look at my satue’ ; its destroyed
• Colossus destroyed by nature like how statue of Rameses II has been

Question 11

What is the name for the technique using elongated vowel sounds that is used in ‘Ozymandias’?

Answer 11

assonance

Question 12

finish the quote : ‘I met a…

Answer 12

…traveller’

Question 13

finish the quote : ‘from an…

Answer 13

…antique land’

Question 14

finish the quote : ‘two vast and…

Answer 14

…trunkless legs of stone’

Question 15

finish the quote : ‘sand in the…

Answer 15

…desert…’

Question 16

finish the quote : ‘on the sand…

Answer 16

…half sunk’

Question 17

finish the quote : ‘a shattered…

Answer 17

…visage’

Question 18

finish the quote : ‘whose frown…

Answer 18

…and wrinkled lip’

Question 19

finish the quote : ‘sneer of…

Answer 19

…cold command’

Question 20

finish the quote : ‘its sculptor…

Answer 20

…well those passions read’

Question 21

finish the quote : ‘which yet…

Answer 21

…survive’

Question 22

finish the quote : ‘stamped on…

Answer 22

…these lifeless things’

Question 23

finish the quote : ‘the hand that…

Answer 23

…mocked them’

Question 24

finish the quote : ‘the heart that…

Answer 24

…fed’

Question 25

finish the quote : 'on the...

Answer 25

...pedestal'

Question 26

finish the quote : 'my name is...

Answer 26

...ozymandias'

Question 27

finish the quote : 'king of...

Answer 27

...kings'

Question 28

What is interesting about the line 'king of kings'?

Answer 28

usually refers to God blasphemy

Question 29

finish the quote : 'look on my...

Answer 29

...works'

Question 30

finish the quote : 'ye...

Answer 30

...Mighty and despair'

Question 31

finish the quote : 'nothing beside...

Answer 31

...remains'

Question 32

finish the quote : 'round the...

Answer 32

...decay'

Question 33

finish the quote : 'that colossal...

Answer 33

..wreck'

Question 34

finish the quote : 'boundless and...

Answer 34

...bare'

Question 35

finish the quote : 'lone...

Answer 35

...and level sands'

Question 36

finish the quote : 'stretch...

Answer 36

..far away'

Question 37

What does the use of assonance at the end of 'Ozymandias'?

Answer 37

desert stretches for as far as eye can see -> nature is mighty

Question 38

What is the significance of the title?

Answer 38

alternate name identity lost - not recognised

Question 39

What type of poetry did Shelley write?

Answer 39

political poetry criticising authority and tyranny

Question 40

What did Shelley want?

Answer 40

rebellion

Question 41

What is Shelley commenting on in Ozymandias?

Answer 41

Western cultural superiority - acquisition of Egyptian artefacts

Question 42

What was Shelley inspired by?

Answer 42

French Revolution

Question 43

Give a quote from Shelley

Answer 43

'man must assert is native rights, must say : we take from Monarch's hand the granted way'