Extract Based Questions: Ozymandias - Class 10 PDF Download

Q1: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert.

(a) Where had the traveller come from?
Ans: The traveller had come from a land where a civilisation flourished in ancient times. He is probably referring to Egypt.

(b) What had he seen there?
Ans: The traveller had seen a huge statue of a king called Ozymandias.

(c) What part of it still stood?
Ans: Only the legs of the statue still stood.

Q2: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
“Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read.”

(a) What is ‘them’?
Ans: ‘Them’ are the two legs of the statue.

(b) What lies near them?
Ans: The half-shattered face of the statue lies near them.

(c) Whose expression did the sculptor read well?
Ans: The sculptor read the expression on the face of Ozymandias.

Q3: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well .those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;”

(a) What is the expression on the face of the statue?
Ans: There is an expression of contempt on the face of the statue.

(b) Whose hand mocked the expression?
Ans: The hand of the sculptor mocked the expression.

(c) Whose heart fed the expression?
Ans: The heart of Ozymandias fed the expression.

Q4: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
“Nothing beside remains.
Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

(a) What does the poet mean by ‘colossal wreck’?
Ans: The poet means the huge statue of Ozymandias.

(b) What literary device does the poet use in the last line?
Ans: The poet uses the device of synecdoche.

Q5: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
“And on the pedestal these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

(a) Where are these words carved, ‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair’?
Ans: These words are carved at the foot of Ozymandias’s statue.

(b) Why should Ozymandias refer to himself as ‘King of Kings’?
Ans: Ozymandias considered himself very powerful.