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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. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?
(a) Personification.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Simile.
(d) Imagery.
2. What "Art" does the title refer to?
(a) The art of disciplining the emotions.
(b) The art of maintaining perspective.
(c) The art of mastering loss.
(d) The art of maintaining relationships.
3. 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"?
(a) It creates an angry, agitated tone because of the isolation of the word "meant," which ends with a harsh sound.
(b) It creates the sense of something being missing or lost because the thought is interrupted by enjambment.
(c) It creates irony because the thought's completion on line 9 is actually the opposite of what the speaker means.
(d) It creates a humorous effect because the words that complete the thought on line 9 are unexpected.
4. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?
(a) Stanza three exposes the inherent contradictions in the ideas about loss advanced by stanza two.
(b) Stanza three repeats the emotional plea of stanza two in a more logical and rational form.
(c) Stanza three extends the small, everyday losses in stanza two into more serious and personal territory.
(d) Stanza three provides hyperbolic examples of the effects of loss proposed in stanza two.
5. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?
(a) Glasses.
(b) Keys.
(c) Socks.
(d) Pens.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the format 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. Which is the best description of the tone of stanza one?
4. How many lines does "One Art" have?
5. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?
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