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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. What is a reasonable statement to make about the effect of the enjambment in lines 8 and 9, "places, and names, and where it was you meant/ to travel"?
(a) It creates irony because the thought's completion on line 9 is actually the opposite of what the speaker means.
(b) It creates a humorous effect because the words that complete the thought on line 9 are unexpected.
(c) It creates an angry, agitated tone because of the isolation of the word "meant," which ends with a harsh sound.
(d) It creates the sense of something being missing or lost because the thought is interrupted by enjambment.

2. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?
(a) Imperative.
(b) Interrogative.
(c) Subjunctive.
(d) Indicative.

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

4. What technique is employed in line 16, "Even losing you"?
(a) Dramatic irony.
(b) Sarcasm.
(c) Understatement.
(d) Apostrophe.

5. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?

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

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

4. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?

5. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?

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