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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) Apostrophe.
(b) Dramatic irony.
(c) Sarcasm.
(d) Understatement.

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

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

4. Which is the best description of the tone of stanza one?
(a) Ebullient.
(b) Bewildered.
(c) Sanguine.
(d) Livid.

5. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?
(a) Their child's artwork.
(b) Their mother's watch.
(c) Their wedding ring.
(d) Their college diploma.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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