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

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

3. How many lines does "One Art" have?
(a) 17.
(b) 19.
(c) 18.
(d) 20.

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

5. 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) Simile.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Hyperbole.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

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

3. What is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?

4. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?

5. What "Art" does the title refer to?

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