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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 name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?
(a) Tribrach.
(b) Amphibrach.
(c) Dactyl.
(d) Anapest.

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

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

4. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?
(a) Tiring inconvenience.
(b) Sudden, uncoordinated movement.
(c) Humorous coincidence.
(d) Confused agitation.

5. 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) Lost.
(c) Many.
(d) Things.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 13 claim that they have "lost two cities"?

2. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?

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

4. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?

5. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?

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