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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 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 a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.
(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 that can be lost "farther" and "faster."
2. Which is a reasonable statement of how the punctuation and syntax of the final stanza affect the stanza's tone?
(a) They create a choppy sound that indicates anger.
(b) They accelerate the pace as the stanza unfolds, creating a sense of urgency.
(c) They slow its pace and create a sense of uncertainty.
(d) They create a rolling rhythm that invokes the light, carefree tone of a nursery rhyme.
3. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?
(a) AAB.
(b) ABA.
(c) ABB.
(d) AAA.
4. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?
(a) Cacophony, epizeuxis, and diazeugma.
(b) Alliteration, epistrophe, and antithesis.
(c) Anaphora, assonance, and asyndeton.
(d) Parallelism, diacope, and consonance.
5. Which is the best description of the tone of stanza one?
(a) Bewildered.
(b) Livid.
(c) Ebullient.
(d) Sanguine.
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. 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 is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?
4. What is the format of "One Art"?
5. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?
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