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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 does the colon at the end of line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," indicate about the "places, and names" in line 8?
(a) Places and names are some of the last things that a person loses.
(b) Places and names are examples of things a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.
(c) Places and names are more upsetting to lose than small objects and small amounts of time.
(d) Places and names are examples of things that can be lost "farther" and "faster."

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

3. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?
(a) Their mother's watch.
(b) Their wedding ring.
(c) Their college diploma.
(d) Their child's artwork.

4. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?
(a) Personification.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Simile.
(d) Imagery.

5. 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) Parallelism, diacope, and consonance.
(d) Cacophony, epizeuxis, and diazeugma.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?

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

3. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?

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

5. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?

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