Read the following lines from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" (1818) carefully:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert... 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
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
In line 8, the speaker uses synecdoche ("The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed") primarily to achieve which of the following effects?
- Adescribe the literal physical remains of the statue's shattered limbs scattered across the desert sand
- Bconvey the poet's personal grief over his own artistic limitations in capturing the transience of life
- represent the sculptor and the king through their specific actions, emphasizing the relationship between artistic creation and political powerCevap
- Dmaintain a uniform tone of solemn praise for the enduring legacy of the king's empire
- Eisolate the actions of the hand and heart from the preceding line, suggesting they refer directly to the 'lifeless things'
Cevap
The speaker uses synecdoche to represent the sculptor and the king through their specific actions, emphasizing the relationship between artistic creation and political power.
The correct answer correctly explains that the synecdoche of 'the hand' and 'the heart' represents the sculptor and the king respectively. This choice highlights how the poem uses these symbols of human agency to explore the tension between artistic creation (the sculptor's hand recreating passions) and political authority (the king's heart).
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Function of Figurative Language (Synecdoche)
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