2. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?
(a) They are small and insignificant.
(b) They are difficult to live with.
(c) They seem to want to get lost.
(d) They are part of a distant past.

3. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?
(a) Slant rhyme.
(b) Eye rhyme.
(c) Perfect rhyme.
(d) Internal rhyme.

4. What "Art" does the title refer to?
(a) The art of mastering loss.
(b) The art of maintaining perspective.
(c) The art of maintaining relationships.
(d) The art of disciplining the emotions.

5. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?
(a) Stanza three provides hyperbolic examples of the effects of loss proposed in stanza two.
(b) Stanza three extends the small, everyday losses in stanza two into more serious and personal territory.
(c) Stanza three exposes the inherent contradictions in the ideas about loss advanced by stanza two.
(d) Stanza three repeats the emotional plea of stanza two in a more logical and rational form.

Short Answer 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"?

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

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

4. What does the second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?

5. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?

(see the answer key)

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