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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. 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.

2. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?
(a) Glasses.
(b) Keys.
(c) Pens.
(d) Socks.

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

4. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?
(a) Every line is endstopped.
(b) It reverses the rhyme pattern of the previous stanzas.
(c) It has an extra line.
(d) It is written in free verse.

5. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?
(a) 7.
(b) 9.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?

3. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?

4. Which word in lines 10 and 11, "And look! my last,/ or next-to-last, of three loved houses went," creates a momentary shift in verb mood?

5. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?

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