What is a rhyming word for 'land' (other than 'sand' and 'command') in the poem?
stand
100
Who is speaking?
The lover
200
How many quatrains in a Shakespearean sonnet?
Three
200
What is the theme of Percy Shelley's sonnet?
Time's destruction
200
What line shows how Ozymandius imagines himself?
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
200
what is the rhyming scheme for the first quatrain?
abab
200
What is 'Summer's lease'?
Summer's season or timespan
300
What is the volta?
The point at which the mood, tone changes and the thought theme turns towards a conclusion.
300
What is the season of love?
Summer
300
Who is actually remembered, in Ozymandius?
The sculptor
300
Find a rhyming word within the poem Ozymandius, to go with the first syllable of 'trunkless'
sunk
300
Explain one way in which the beloved is superior to a summer's day?
Her/his beauty shall not fade, OR
Her/his beauty is eternal
400
What do you expect to be in the couplet?
The poet's final conclusion
400
What aspect of love will fade or decline?
The first flush, passion
400
Find a dramatic example of an alliterative image in Ozymandius?
sneer of cold command OR
lone and level sands stretch far away
400
How does Shakespeare shorten the words "dimmed' and 'untrimmed' in 'Shall I compare', to fit with the rhyme and rhythm scheme?
dimm'd, trimm'd
400
What does 'fair' mean, in this sonnet? (Give two meanings)
charm, beauty
500
How is an iamb represented, in iambic pentameter?
l u/ l
500
Scan the following line:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
l u / l u / l u / l u / l u / l
500
Find an example of personification in Shall I compare...
the eye of Heaven shines OR
Death brag
500
Can you think of any word which would rhyme with EITHER 'sculptor' OR 'eternal'?
raptor infernal
500
What is the irony of the couplet?
The beloved's beauty is immortal, not simply because a poet has written about it, but because Shakespeare perfected the beauty of the sonnet form in this poem.