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

2. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?
(a) ABA.
(b) ABB.
(c) AAB.
(d) AAA.

3. Who is the author of "One Art"?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Elizabeth Bishop.
(c) Lucille Clifton.
(d) Audre Lourde.

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

5. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Personification.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Simile.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?

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

4. How many lines does "One Art" have?

5. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?

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