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

2. 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) Imagery.
(d) Simile.

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

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

5. Who is the author of "One Art"?
(a) Elizabeth Bishop.
(b) Sylvia Plath.
(c) Lucille Clifton.
(d) Audre Lourde.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the format of "One Art"?

2. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?

3. 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?

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

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

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