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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "One Art" lines 1-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many lines does "One Art" have?
(a) 18.
(b) 17.
(c) 20.
(d) 19.

2. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?
(a) Anaphora, assonance, and asyndeton.
(b) Alliteration, epistrophe, and antithesis.
(c) Cacophony, epizeuxis, and diazeugma.
(d) Parallelism, diacope, and consonance.

3. What is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?
(a) Sentence fragments.
(b) Parenthetical expressions.
(c) Modifying phrases.
(d) Coordinating conjunctions.

4. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?
(a) First person and indicative mood.
(b) Second person and indicative mood.
(c) Second person and imperative mood.
(d) First person and imperative mood.

5. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?
(a) Iamb.
(b) Dibrach.
(c) Trochee.
(d) Spondee.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?

2. What "Art" does the title refer to?

3. In lines 2 and 3, "so many things seem filled with the intent/ to be lost that their loss is no disaster," what is the antecedent of the word "their"?

4. Which is a reasonable statement of how the punctuation and syntax of the final stanza affect the stanza's tone?

5. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?

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