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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many lines does "One Art" have?

2. 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"?

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

4. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?

5. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?

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