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    The document contains 5 extracts from a poem with questions about each extract. 1. The first extract describes a traveller telling the poet about seeing two stone legs standing in the desert, all that remained of some larger structure. 2. The second extract refers to a visage or face lying near the legs, with an expression that seems to have been carefully sculpted. 3. The third extract provides more details on the facial expression, specifically a frown and sneer, and says the sculptor captured emotions that still survive on the lifeless statue. 4. The fourth extract further explains that the emotions survived being stamped onto the lifeless statue, and that an unknown hand mocked and heart fed those emotions.

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    The document contains 5 extracts from a poem with questions about each extract. 1. The first extract describes a traveller telling the poet about seeing two stone legs standing in the desert, all that remained of some larger structure. 2. The second extract refers to a visage or face lying near the legs, with an expression that seems to have been carefully sculpted. 3. The third extract provides more details on the facial expression, specifically a frown and sneer, and says the sculptor captured emotions that still survive on the lifeless statue. 4. The fourth extract further explains that the emotions survived being stamped onto the lifeless statue, and that an unknown hand mocked and heart fed those emotions.

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    Extract - Ozymandias

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    Geetika Kalra
    The document contains 5 extracts from a poem with questions about each extract. 1. The first extract describes a traveller telling the poet about seeing two stone legs standing in the desert, all that remained of some larger structure. 2. The second extract refers to a visage or face lying near the legs, with an expression that seems to have been carefully sculpted. 3. The third extract provides more details on the facial expression, specifically a frown and sneer, and says the sculptor captured emotions that still survive on the lifeless statue. 4. The fourth extract further explains that the emotions survived being stamped onto the lifeless statue, and that an unknown hand mocked and heart fed those emotions.

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    Extract Based Questions

    Read the extracts below and answer the questions that follow.
    1. ‘I met a traveller from an antique land
    Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
    Stand in the desert.’
    (a) Whom did the poet meet? Where was he coming from?
    (b) Where had the traveller come from?
    (c) What had he seen there? .
    (d) What part of it still stood?
    e) What do you mean by ‘antique’?

    2. ‘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 do you understand by ‘Near them’?
    (b) What is ‘them’?

    (c) What lies near them?

    (d) Whose expression did the sculptor read well?

    (e) What do you mean by ‘visage’?

    (f) What sort of expression did the face have? Who read them well?

    3. “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?

    b) Whose hand mocked the expression?


    (c) Whose heart fed the expression?

    4. Which yet survive stamped on these lifeless things,


    The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
    (a) Explain: yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things.

    (b) Whose hands mocked?


    (c) What do you mean by ‘stamped’?

    5. ‘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 when he says that ‘Nothing beside remains’?

    (b) What does the poet mean by ‘colossal wreck’?


    (c) What literary device does the poet use in the last line?

    (d) Explain the last line.

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