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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 the format of "One Art"?
(a) Ballad.
(b) Sestina.
(c) Sonnet.
(d) Villanelle.

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

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

4. 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"?
(a) Intent.
(b) Many.
(c) Things.
(d) Lost.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?

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