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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 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?
(a) Parallelism, diacope, and consonance.
(b) Anaphora, assonance, and asyndeton.
(c) Cacophony, epizeuxis, and diazeugma.
(d) Alliteration, epistrophe, and antithesis.

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

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

4. What is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?
(a) Sentence fragments.
(b) Parenthetical expressions.
(c) Coordinating conjunctions.
(d) Modifying phrases.

5. 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 examples of things that can be lost "farther" and "faster."
(b) Places and names are some of the last things that a person loses.
(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 a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "One Art"?

2. 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"?

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

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

5. 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"?

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